Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama / A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England

by W. W. Greg

• [Early pastoral verse]
• [Spenser]
• [Spenser's immediate followers]
• [The regular eclogists]
• [Lyrical and occasional verse]
• [Milton's Lycidas and Browne's Britannia's Pastorals]
• [The pastoral romances]

Chapter III. [Italian Pastoral Drama]

• [Mythological plays containing pastoral elements]
• [Evolution of the pastoral drama] (see [Appendix I])
• [Tasso and his Aminta]
• [Guarini and the Pastor fido]
• [Minor pastoral drama]

Chapter IV. [Dramatic Origins of the English Pastoral Drama]

• [Mythological plays]
• [Translations from the Italian]
• [Daniel's imitations of Tasso and Guarini]

Chapter V. [The Three Masterpieces]

• [Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess]
• [Randolph's Amyntas]
• [Jonson's Sad Shepherd]

Chapter VI. [The English Pastoral Drama]

• [Plays founded on the pastoral romances]
• [The English stage pastoral]

Chapter VII. [Masques and General Influence]