Shakespeare--Ben Jonson--Beaumont and Fletcher--The
Wise Men of Gotham 250

CHAPTER VII.

Jesters--Court of Queen Elizabeth--James I.--The
"Counterblasts to Tobacco"--Puritans--Charles II.
--Rochester--Buckingham--Dryden--Butler 271

CHAPTER VIII.

Comic Drama of the Restoration--Etheridge--Wycherley 303

CHAPTER IX.

Tom Brown--His Prose Works--Poetry--Sir Richard
Blackmore--D'Urfey--Female Humorists--Carey 312

CHAPTER X.

Vanbrugh--Colley Cibber--Farquhar 340

CHAPTER XI.

Congreve--Lord Dorset 355




HISTORY OF ENGLISH HUMOUR.