_1._ POETRY.--(_a_) _Spenser and his successors_: Drummond. Wither. Wm. Browne. Greville. Sir John Davis. Giles and Phineas Fletcher, (_b_) _The Sonneteers_: Spenser. Sidney. Daniel. Constable. Lodge. Barnes. G. Fletcher. Drayton. Shakespeare. (_c_) _Lyrists_: The lyric in the drama. Greene. Breton. Lodge. Munday. John Wotton. Barnefield. The miscellanies. Campion. Jonson. Shakespeare. (_d_) _Political and Patriotic Verse_: Warner. Daniel. Drayton. (_e_) _Religious and Philosophical Verse_: Giles and Phineas Fletcher. Sir John Davies. Southwell. Wither. Donne. Drummond. (_f_) _Verse Satire_: Drayton. Donne. Joseph Hall. Marston. _2._ THE DRAMA.--(_a_) _Shakespeare’s predecessors_: The “university wits”: Lyly. Nash. Peele. Lodge. Greene. Kyd. Marlowe. (Note chiefly: historical plays are of a tragical cast; Lyly the only romantic comedy writer till Shakespeare). (_b_) _Shakespeare, his contemporaries and successors_: Jonson. Beaumont and Fletcher. Chapman. Marston. Dekker. Middleton. Heywood. Tourneur. Webster. (_c_) _The Masque_: Spenser. Jonson. Campion. Chapman. Beaumont. _(d) Pastoral Drama_: The “university wits.” Daniel. Fletcher. Jonson. (_e_) _Dramatic Criticism_: The Puritan attack on the stage. Gosson _versus_ Lodge. Stubbs _versus_ Heywood, etc. _3._ PROSE.--(_a_) _The Novel_: Its origins in romance of chivalry and pastoral romance. The idylls of Lyly, Sidney, Greene, Lodge. The realistic attempts of Nash and Deloney. The collections of tales from foreign sources by Brooke, Painter, Fenton, and Pettie. (_b_) _The “Character Sketch” and Essay_: Hall. Breton. Overbury. Earle. Bacon. (_c_) _The critics_: Sidney. Harvey. Puttenham. Webbe. Harington. T. Heywood. Jonson. Campion _versus_ Daniel. War of diction, form, and style. (_See also_ Dramatic Criticism), (_d_) _The Satirists_: Audelay. Harman. Dekker. Nash (_See also_ verse satire). (_e_) _The Translators_: The Bible (A.V.) North. Florio. Holland. Fairfax. _Verse translations_--Chapman. Stanyhurst. Harington. (_f_) _Historians and Antiquaries_: Bacon. Raleigh. Knolles. Camden. Stow. (_g_) _Travel and Geography_: Gilbert. Hawkins. Davies. Best. Hakluyt. Purchas. Coryat. The poetry of discovery. (_h_) _Religious Controversialists and Theologians_: Hooker. Andrewes. Ussher. Hall. Donne. The Marprelate Controversy. (_i_) _Philosophical and Miscellaneous Prose_: Burton. Bacon. Jonson. Selden. TEST PAPER--_1500-1630_. _1._ Briefly outline the developments of the drama from _1500-1630_. _2._ Name the chief representatives of the English “humanists” and Reformation writers. Describe the work of any one of them. _3._ The Elizabethans have been described as “adventurers all.” Justify this in reference to their literary output. _4._ What were the chief foreign influences at work during the period _1500-1630_? _5._ Who were the chief prose writers of the period _1550-1630_? Contrast any two of them.