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Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They LivedLong, William J. (William Joseph)

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Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

Name: Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
Author: Long, William J. (William Joseph)

Long, William J. (William Joseph)

American literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism

_Early Drama_. A miracle play, such as Noah, may be read in
    Manly, Specimens of Pre-Shakespearean Drama (Ginn and Company).
    Marlowe's plays in Everyman's Library; his Edward II in Holt's
    English Readings; his Faustus in Temple Dramatists, and in Mermaid
    Series.

    _Shakespeare_. Several editions of Shakespeare's plays, such
    as the revised Hudson (Ginn and Company) and the Neilson (Scott)
    are available. Single plays, such as Julius Caesar, Merchant of
    Venice, Macbeth, As You Like It, are edited for class use in
    Standard English Classics, Lake Classics, and various other school
    series. The Sonnets in Athenæum Press Series.

    _Ben Jonson_. The Alchemist in Cambridge Poets Series; also in
    Thayer, Best Elizabethan Plays (Ginn and Company), which includes
    in one volume plays by Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Beaumont and
    Fletcher.

    _Prose Writers_. Selections from Bacon's Essays in Riverside
    Literature, or Maynard's English Classkcs. The Essays complete in
    Everyman's Library. Selections from Hooker, Sidney and Lyly in
    Manly, English Prose, or Craik, English Prose. Ampler selections in
    Garnett, English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (Ginn and
    Company), which contains in one volume typical works of 33 prose
    writers from Lyly to Carlyle. Hakluyt's Voyages in Everyman's
    Library.

    BIBLIOGRAPHY.

    _HISTORY_. Creighton, The Age of Elizabeth; Winter,
    Shakespeare's England; Goadby, The England of Shakespeare;
    Harrison, Elizabethan England; Spedding, Francis Bacon and his
    Times; Lee, Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century; Payne,
    Voyages of Elizabethan Seamen.

    _LITERATURE_. Saintsbury, Short History of Elizabethan
    Literature; Seccombe and Allen, The Age of Shakespeare; Whipple,
    Literature of the Age of Elizabeth; Schilling, Elizabethan Lyrics;
    Lee, Elizabethan Sonnets; Sheavyn, Literary Profession in the
    Elizabethan Age.

    _Spenser_. Life, by Church (English Men of Letters Series).
    Carpenter, Outline Guide to the Study of Spenser; Craik, Spenser
    and his Times. Essays, by Lowell, in Among My Books; by Dowden, in
    Transcripts and Studies; by Hazlitt, in Lectures on the English
    Poets; by Leigh Hunt, in Imagination and Fancy.

    _The Drama_. Gayley, Plays of Our Forefathers (a study of the
    early drama); Evans, English Masques; Bates, The English Religious
    Drama; Schilling, The Elizabethan Drama; Symonds, Shakespeare's
    Predecessors in the English Drama; Boas, Shakespeare and his
    Predecessors; Collier, History of English Dramatic Poetry; Ward,
    English Dramatic Literature; Chambers, The Medieval Stage; Pollard,
    English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes.

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Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

Long, William J. (William Joseph)

American literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism

_Early Drama_. A miracle play, such as Noah, may be read in
    Manly, Specimens of Pre-Shakespearean Drama (Ginn and Company).
    Marlowe's plays in Everyman's Library; his Edward II in Holt's
    English Readings; his Faustus in Temple Dramatists, and in Mermaid
    Series.

    _Shakespeare_. Several editions of Shakespeare's plays, such
    as the revised Hudson (Ginn and Company) and the Neilson (Scott)
    are available. Single plays, such as Julius Caesar, Merchant of
    Venice, Macbeth, As You Like It, are edited for class use in
    Standard English Classics, Lake Classics, and various other school
    series. The Sonnets in Athenæum Press Series.

    _Ben Jonson_. The Alchemist in Cambridge Poets Series; also in
    Thayer, Best Elizabethan Plays (Ginn and Company), which includes
    in one volume plays by Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Beaumont and
    Fletcher.

    _Prose Writers_. Selections from Bacon's Essays in Riverside
    Literature, or Maynard's English Classkcs. The Essays complete in
    Everyman's Library. Selections from Hooker, Sidney and Lyly in
    Manly, English Prose, or Craik, English Prose. Ampler selections in
    Garnett, English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (Ginn and
    Company), which contains in one volume typical works of 33 prose
    writers from Lyly to Carlyle. Hakluyt's Voyages in Everyman's
    Library.

    BIBLIOGRAPHY.

    _HISTORY_. Creighton, The Age of Elizabeth; Winter,
    Shakespeare's England; Goadby, The England of Shakespeare;
    Harrison, Elizabethan England; Spedding, Francis Bacon and his
    Times; Lee, Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century; Payne,
    Voyages of Elizabethan Seamen.

    _LITERATURE_. Saintsbury, Short History of Elizabethan
    Literature; Seccombe and Allen, The Age of Shakespeare; Whipple,
    Literature of the Age of Elizabeth; Schilling, Elizabethan Lyrics;
    Lee, Elizabethan Sonnets; Sheavyn, Literary Profession in the
    Elizabethan Age.

    _Spenser_. Life, by Church (English Men of Letters Series).
    Carpenter, Outline Guide to the Study of Spenser; Craik, Spenser
    and his Times. Essays, by Lowell, in Among My Books; by Dowden, in
    Transcripts and Studies; by Hazlitt, in Lectures on the English
    Poets; by Leigh Hunt, in Imagination and Fancy.

    _The Drama_. Gayley, Plays of Our Forefathers (a study of the
    early drama); Evans, English Masques; Bates, The English Religious
    Drama; Schilling, The Elizabethan Drama; Symonds, Shakespeare's
    Predecessors in the English Drama; Boas, Shakespeare and his
    Predecessors; Collier, History of English Dramatic Poetry; Ward,
    English Dramatic Literature; Chambers, The Medieval Stage; Pollard,
    English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes.

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Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

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