CONTENTS
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Chapter I. Definitions 1
Chapter II. The Medieval and the Classical Influences 21
Chapter III. The Beginnings of Tragedy 48
Chapter IV. Marlowe and his Contemporaries 77
Chapter V. Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 136
Chapter VI. Shakespeare 181
Chapter VII. The Later Elizabethans 196
Chapter VIII. The Restoration 243
Chapter IX. The Eighteenth Century 281
Chapter X. The Romantic Movement 326
Chapter XI. Conclusion 366
Index 379