[BOOK II.—THE RENAISSANCE]
[CHAPTER FIRST]
[The Pagan Renaissance]
[PART I.—Manners of the Time]
[SECTION I.—Ideas of the Middle Ages]169
[SECTION II.—Growth of New Ideas]171
[SECTION III.—Popular Festivals]178
[SECTION IV.—Influence of Classic Literature]180
[PART II.—Poetry]
[SECTION I.—Renaissance of Saxon Genius]185
[SECTION II.—The Earl of Surrey]185
[SECTION III.—Surrey's Style]190
[SECTION IV.—Development of Artistic Ideas]192
[SECTION V.—Wherein Lies the Strength of the Poetry of this Period]204
[SECTION VI—Edmund Spenser]214
[SECTION VII.—Spenser in his Relation to the Renaissance]221
[PART III.—Prose.]
[SECTION I.—The Decay of Poetry]237
[SECTION II.—The Intellectual Level of the Renaissance]243
[SECTION III.—Robert Burton]248
[SECTION IV.—Sir Thomas Browne]252
[SECTION V.—Francis Bacon]255
[CHAPTER SECOND]
[The Theatre]
[SECTION I.—The Public and the Stage]264
[SECTION II.—Manners of the Sixteenth Century]267
[SECTION III.—Some Aspects of the English Mind]274
[SECTION IV.—The Poets of the Period]279
[SECTION V.—Formation of the Drama]291
[SECTION VI.—Furious Passions—Exaggerated Characters]296
[SECTION VII.—Female Characters]305