ON THE LITERATURE OF THE AND CHARACTERS OF SHAKESPEAR'S PLAYS BY WILLIAM HAZLITT, LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1878. ADVERTISEMENT то THE ORIGINAL EDITION. By the "AGE OF ELIZABETH" (as it relates to the history of our Literature) I would be understood to mean the time from the Reformation to the end of Charles I., including the writers of a certain School or style of Poetry or Prose, who flourished together or immediately succeeded one another within this period. I have, in the following pages, said little of two of the greatest writers of that age, Shakspeare and Spenser, because I had treated of them separately in former publications.* * Characters of Shakspeare's Plays, 1817, and Lectures on the English Poets, 1818-ED. |