ON THE LITERATURE OF THE AGE OF ELIZABETH, AND CHARACTERS OF SHAKESPEAR'S PLAYS BY WILLIAM HAZLITT, Author of "Table Talk" "Lectures on the English Poets," " Th LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1884. Miss Price Luger 4-43-1923 LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS 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.—En. 421675 |