English Literature from the Old English Period Through the Renaissance

TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
CHAPTER 1: THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD......Page 22
POETRY......Page 25
PROBLEMS OF DATING......Page 26
RELIGIOUS VERSE......Page 27
ELEGIAC AND HEROIC VERSE......Page 28
PROSE......Page 30
EARLY TRANSLATIONS INTO ENGLISH......Page 31
LATE 10TH- AND 11TH-CENTURY PROSE......Page 33
NOTABLE OLD ENGLISH WRITERS......Page 34
NOTABLE OLD ENGLISH TEXTS......Page 40
EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH POETRY......Page 51
INFLUENCE OF FRENCH POETRY......Page 52
Fabliau......Page 54
VERSE ROMANCE......Page 55
Beast Epic......Page 56
ARTHURIAN LEGEND......Page 57
THE LYRIC......Page 60
EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH PROSE......Page 62
ALLITERATIVE POETRY......Page 64
COURTLY POETRY......Page 69
POPULAR AND SECULAR VERSE......Page 73
LATER MIDDLE ENGLISH PROSE......Page 74
RELIGIOUS PROSE......Page 75
SECULAR PROSE......Page 76
MYSTERY PLAYS......Page 78
MORALITY PLAYS......Page 82
MIRACLE PLAYS......Page 84
THE TRANSITION FROM MEDIEVAL TO RENAISSANCE......Page 85
WILLIAM CAXTON......Page 87
GEOFFREY CHAUCER......Page 89
JOHN GOWER......Page 103
ROBERT MANNYNG......Page 105
ORM......Page 107
RICHARD ROLLE......Page 108
CHAPTER 3: THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD (1550-1660)......Page 109
INTELLECTUAL AND RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION......Page 110
THE RACE FOR CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT......Page 112
ELIZABETHAN POETRY AND PROSE......Page 115
DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE......Page 116
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY AND EDMUND SPENSER......Page 118
ELIZABETHAN LYRIC......Page 122
THE SONNET SEQUENCE......Page 123
OTHER POETIC STYLES......Page 124
PROSE STYLES, 1550-1600......Page 128
EARLY STUART POETRY AND PROSE......Page 131
House of Stuart......Page 132
The Metaphysicals......Page 134
BEN JONSON AND THE CAVALIER POETS......Page 139
CONTINUED INFLUENCE OF SPENSER......Page 141
Spenserian Stanza......Page 142
THE EFFECT OF RELIGION AND SCIENCE ON EARLY STUART PROSE......Page 143
PROSE STYLES......Page 145
JOHN MILTON AND THE RENAISSANCE......Page 147
MILTON\'S LIFE AND WORKS......Page 149
MILTON\'S INFLUENCE......Page 174
CHAPTER 4: ELIZABETHAN AND EARLY STUART DRAMA......Page 178
THEATRES IN LONDON AND THE PROVINCES......Page 179
PROFESSIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS......Page 181
Blank Verse......Page 182
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE......Page 183
MARLOWE\'S WORKS......Page 185
LITERARY CAREER......Page 189
ASSESSMENT......Page 190
SHAKESPEARE THE MAN......Page 192
SHAKESPEARE\'S EARLY PLAYS......Page 198
PLAYS OF THE MIDDLE AND LATE YEARS......Page 208
THE POEMS......Page 234
Collaborations and Spurious Attributions......Page 237
QUESTIONS OF AUTHORSHIP......Page 238
PLAYWRIGHTS AFTER SHAKESPEARE......Page 241
BEN JONSON......Page 242
OTHER JACOBEAN DRAMATISTS......Page 245
THE LAST RENAISSANCE DRAMATISTS......Page 247
EPILOGUE......Page 250
GLOSSARY......Page 252
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD......Page 254
ELIZABETHAN POETRY AND PROSE......Page 255
ELIZABETHAN AND EARLY STUART DRAMA......Page 256
INDEX......Page 258