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Introduction | p. 10 |
The Old English Period | p. 21 |
Poetry | p. 24 |
The Major Manuscripts | p. 25 |
Problems of Dating | p. 25 |
Religious Verse | p. 26 |
Elegiac and Heroic Verse | p. 27 |
Prose | p. 29 |
Early Translations into English | p. 30 |
Late 10th-and 11th-Century Prose | p. 32 |
Significant Figures and Texts | p. 33 |
Notable Old English Writers | p. 33 |
Notable Old English Texts | p. 39 |
The Middle English Period | p. 50 |
Early Middle English Poetry | p. 50 |
Influence of French Poetry | p. 51 |
Fabliau | p. 53 |
Didactic Poetry | p. 54 |
Verse Romance | p. 54 |
Beast Epic | p. 55 |
Arthurian Legend | p. 56 |
Breton Lay | p. 59 |
The Lyric | p. 59 |
Early Middle English Prose | p. 61 |
Later Middle English Poetry | p. 63 |
Alliterative Poetry | p. 63 |
Courtly Poetry | p. 68 |
Popular and Secular Verse | p. 72 |
Political Verse | p. 73 |
Later Middle English Prose | p. 73 |
Religious Prose | p. 74 |
Secular Prose | p. 75 |
Middle English Drama | p. 77 |
Mystery Plays | p. 77 |
Morality Plays | p. 81 |
Everyman | p. 83 |
Miracle Plays | p. 83 |
The Transition from Medieval to Renaissance | p. 84 |
Significant Middle English Literary Figures | p. 86 |
William Caxton | p. 86 |
Geoffrey Chaucer | p. 88 |
John Gower | p. 102 |
Lawamon | p. 104 |
Robert Mannyng | p. 104 |
Orm | p. 106 |
Richard Rolle | p. 107 |
The Renaissance Period (1550-1660) | p. 108 |
Social Conditions | p. 109 |
Intellectual and Religious Revolution | p. 109 |
The Race for Cultural Development | p. 111 |
Elizabethan Poetry and Prose | p. 114 |
Development of the English Language | p. 115 |
Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser | p. 117 |
Elizabethan Lyric | p. 121 |
The Sonnet Sequence | p. 122 |
Other Poetic Styles | p. 123 |
Prose Styles, 1550-1600 | p. 127 |
Early Stuart Poetry and Prose | p. 130 |
House of Stuart | p. 131 |
The Metaphysical Poets | p. 133 |
The Metaphysicals | p. 133 |
Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets | p. 138 |
Continued Influence of Spenser | p. 140 |
Spenserian Stanza | p. 141 |
The Effect of Religion and Science on Early Stuart Prose | p. 142 |
Prose Styles | p. 144 |
John Milton and the Renaissance | p. 146 |
Milton's Life and Works | p. 148 |
Milton's Influence | p. 173 |
Elizabethan and Early Stuart Drama | p. 177 |
Theatres in London and the Provinces | p. 178 |
Professional Playwrights | p. 180 |
Blank Verse | p. 181 |
Christopher Marlowe | p. 182 |
Marlowe's Works | p. 184 |
Literary Career | p. 188 |
Assessment | p. 189 |
William Shakespeare | p. 191 |
Shakespeare the Man | p. 191 |
Shakespeare's Early Plays | p. 197 |
Plays of the Middle and Late Years | p. 207 |
The Poems | p. 233 |
Collaborations and Spurious Attributions | p. 236 |
Questions of Authorship | p. 237 |
Playwrights after Shakespeare | p. 240 |
Ben Jonson | p. 241 |
Other Jacobean Dramatists | p. 244 |
The Last Renaissance Dramatists | p. 246 |
Epilogue | p. 249 |
Glossary | p. 251 |
Bibliography | p. 253 |
Index | p. 257 |
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