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Poets and playwrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, Milton.

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Main Author: Stoll, Elmer Edgar, 1874-1959
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Russell & Russell, 1965
Subjects:
Literature.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Jonson, Ben, > 1573?-1637.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Criticism and interpretation.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Cleopatra
  • 2. Henry V
  • 3. Shakespeare and the moderns: Corneille, Racine, Ibsen
  • 4. The old drama and the new: Ben Jonson
  • 5. The stage and the house, then and now
  • 6. Spenser
  • 7. Was paradise well lost?
  • 8. Certain fallacies and irrelevancies in the literary scholarship of the day: Shakespeare and Milton in the hands of the learned
  • 9. Milton, Puritan of the seventeenth century.