akespeare_, 2 vols.

Saintsbury's _A History of Elizabethan Literature_.

_Dictionary of National Biography_ for lives of Lyly, Sidney, Hooker.

Bacon, Spenser, and the minor dramatists.

Walton's _Life of Hooker_.

Church's _Life of Bacon_. (E.M.L.)

Church's _Life of Spenser_. (E.M.L.)

Mackail's _The Springs of Helicon_ (Spenser).

Dowden's _Transcripts and Studies_ (Spenser).

Lowell's _Among My Books_ (Spenser).

Erskine's _The Elizabethan Lyric_.

The Drama[30]

Schelling's _Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642_, 2 vols. Ward's _A History
of English Dramatic Literature_, 3 vols.

Brooke's _The Tudor Drama_.

Chambers's _The Mediaeval Stage_.

Allbright's _The Shakespearean Stage_.

Lawrence's _Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies_.

Smith's _York Plays_ (Clarendon Press).

Symonds's _Shakespeare's Predecessors in the English Drama_.

Bates's _The English Religious Drama_.

Manly's _Specimens of the Pre-Shakespearean Drama_.

Wallace's _The Evolution of the English Drama up to Shakespeare_.

Ingram's _Christopher Marlowe and his Associates_.

Dowden's _Transcripts and Studies_ (Marlowe).

Symonds's _Ben Jonson_.

Swinburne's _A Study of Ben Jonson_.

Shakespeare

Lee's _A Life of William Shakespeare_.

Furnivall and Munro's _Shakespeare: Life and Work_.

Harris's _The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life Story_.

Halliwell-Phillipps's _Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare_.

Raleigh's _Shakespeare_.(E.M.L.)

Baker's _The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist_.

MacCracken, Pierce, and Durham's _An Introduction to Shakespeare_.

Bradley's _Shakespearean Tragedy_ (excellent).

Bradley's _Oxford Lectures on Poetry_.

Dowden's _Shakespeare, His Mind and Art_.

Coleridge's _Lectures on Shakespeare_ (pp. 21-58 of Beers's
_Selections from the Prose writings of Coleridge_).

Lowell's _Shakespeare Once More_, in _Among My Books_.

Wallace's _Shakespeare, the Globe, and Blackfriars_.

_How Shakespeare's Senses were Trained_, Chap. X. in Halleck's
_Education of the Central Nervous System_.

Rolfe's _Shakespeare the Boy_.

Boswell-Stone's _Shakespeare's Holinshed_.

Brooke's _Shakespeare's Plutarch_, 2 vols.

Madden's _The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare
and of Elizabethan Sport_.

Winter's _Shakespeare on the Stage_.

SUGGESTED READINGS WITH QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

Elizabethan Prose.--Good selections from Ascham, Hakluyt, Raleigh,
Holinshed,