Shakespeare's Roman plays and their background

by Sir Mungo William MacCallum

By W. J. Courthope, C.B., M.A., D.Litt., LL.D.,

formerly Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; Hon. Fellow of New College, Oxford. 6 vols. 8vo. 10s. net each.

Vol. I. The Middle Ages; Influence of the Roman Empire; The Encyclopædic Education of the Church; The Feudal System.

Vol. II. The Renaissance and the Reformation; Influence of the Court and the Universities.

Vol. III. The Intellectual Conflict of the Seventeenth Century; Decadent Influence of the Feudal Monarchy; Growth of the National Genius.

Vol. IV. Development and Decline of the Poetical Drama; Influence of the Court and the People.

Vol. V. The Constitutional Compromise of the Eighteenth Century; Effects of the Classical Renaissance; its Zenith and Decline; The Early Romantic Renaissance.

Vol. VI. The Romantic Movement in English Poetry; Effects of the French Revolution.

A History of English Prosody

from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day. By George Saintsbury, M.A. Oxon., Hon. LL.D. Aberd., Hon. D.Litt. Dresd., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh. 3 vols. 8vo.