The Faerie Queene--The Plan Proposed--Illustrations of the History--The
Knight and the Lady--The Wood of Error and the Hermitage--The
Crusades--Britomartis and Sir Artegal--Elizabeth--Mary Queen of
Scots--Other Works--Spenser's Fate--Other Writers


CHAPTER XIII.

THE ENGLISH DRAMA.

Origin of the Drama--Miracle Plays--Moralities--First Comedy--Early
Tragedies--Christopher Marlowe--Other Dramatists--Playwrights and
Morals


CHAPTER XIV.

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

The Power of Shakspeare--Meagre Early History--Doubts of his
Identity--What is known--Marries and goes to London--"Venus" and
"Lucrece"--Retirement and Death--Literary Habitudes--Variety of the
Plays--Table of Dates and Sources


CHAPTER XV.

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE (CONTINUED).