[61] _Tottel’s Miscellany_ has been reprinted by Mr Arber, who has also republished Gascoigne’s _Steel Glass_, and the _Eclogues_, _Epitaphs_, and _Sonnets_ of Barnabe Googe in his English reprints. Turberville is in vol. ii. of Chalmers’s _British Poets_. Works of Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, 1859. [62] _The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney_, edited by the Rev. A. B. Grosart, 2 vols., 1873, in “The Fuller’s Worthies Library.” [63] _Poems of Thomas Watson_, in Arber’s English reprints. [64] For Barnes, Percy, Constable, Lynch, _Zepheria_, and Smith, see Mr Arber’s _English Garner_; for Daniel and Drayton, vols. iii. and iv. of Chalmers’s _British Poets_. [65] Mr Arber in his _English Garner_, and Mr Bullen in his _Lyrics from the Song-books of the Elizabethan Age_, 1887, have made selections from these sources. [66] Chalmers’s _British Poets_, vol. iv. [67] Chalmers’s _British Poets_, vol. iii. Complete works, edited by Dr Grosart. 5 vols., 1885-1896. [68] Chalmers’s _British Poets_, vol. iv. A very thorough monograph on Drayton by Mr O. Elton has been published by the Spenser Society, 1895. [69] _Satires by Joseph Hall._ Chiswick Press, 1824. CHAPTER VIII. THE EARLIER DRAMATISTS. THE FIRST PLAYS--RESISTANCE TO CLASSIC INFLUENCE--ADVANTAGES OF THIS--AND THE LIMITATIONS--THE DRAMATIC QUALITY--CLASSIC, SPANISH, AND FRENCH DRAMA--UNITY IN THE ENGLISH PLAYS--‘RALPH ROISTER DOISTER’--‘GAMMER GURTON’S NEEDLE’--‘GORBODUC’--FORMATION OF THE THEATRE--LYLY--GREENE--PEELE--KYD--MARLOWE--CHARACTER OF THESE WRITERS--SHAKESPEARE--GUESSES ABOUT HIS LIFE--ORDER OF HIS WORK--ESTIMATES OF SHAKESPEARE--DIVISIONS OF HIS WORK--THE POEMS--THE DRAMAS--THE REALITY OF SHAKESPEARE’S CHARACTERS. [SN: _The first plays._] Three plays stand at the threshold of the Elizabethan drama--_Ralph Roister Doister_, _Gammer Gurton’s Needle_, and _Gorboduc_, or _Ferrex and Porrex_. None of the three indicate the course which that dramatic literature was destined to take. _Gammer Gurton’s Needle_ is a spirited farce of low life, holding if from anything, then from the mediæval comedy as it flourished in France. _Ralph Roister Doister_, as became the work of a schoolmaster, is full of reminiscences of the Latin comedy. _Gorboduc_ is an open imitation of the Senecan tragedy. [SN: _Resistance to the classic influence._]