XIII. Malory [124]
XIV. Early Scottish Literature: Barbour — Wyntoun — The Kingis Quhair — Henryson — Dunbar — Blind Harry — The Buke of the Howlat — Gawain Douglas — Sir David Lyndsay [129]
XV. Popular Poetry. Ballads
Professional Poetry: Skelton — Barclay [147]
XVI. Rise of the Drama: Heywood — Ralph Roister Doister — Gammer Gurton's Needle — "Gorboduc" [153]
XVII. Wyatt and Surrey. Gascoigne. Sackville: The Earl of Surrey — Tottel's Miscellany — Gascoigne — Sackville [163]
XVIII. Prose of the Renaissance: Elyot — Ascham — Lyly's Euphues — Sidney — Sidney's "Defence of Poesie" Spenser [172]
XIX. The Elizabethan Stage and Playwrights: John Lyly — Peele — Greene — Lodge — Nash — Marlowe — Kyd — Shakespeare — The Sonnets — Later Plays — Jonson — Jonson's Prose [193]
XX. Other Dramatists: Beaumont and Fletcher — Chapman — John Marston — Dekker — Middleton — Heywood — Webster — Massinger — Ford — Shirley [242]
XXI. Elizabethan and Jacobean Prose Writers: Hooker — "Martin Marprelate" — Bacon — Raleigh — Overbury — Translators — Pulpit Eloquence [265]