A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 258 — Chapter V · ELIZABETHAN CRITICISM.

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Reprinted by Haslewood. Whetstone’s Preface to Promos and Cassandra (1578) and A. Fraunce’s Arcadian Rhetoric (1588) are earlier still. The former anticipates Sidney in objecting to the irregularity of English plays: the latter is a strong partisan of classical metres, his practice in which is sufficiently roughly treated by Ben Jonson in his Conversations, v. infra, p. 199.

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