The_, 131

Italy (and Italian), 24, 25, 47, 48, 49, 52, 53, 66, 67, 69, 74, 75, 78,
86, 94, 95, 136

_Jacke Jugelar_, 96

James I., 23

James, Henry, 53

Johnson, Dr, 58

Jonson, Ben, 114, 120, 127, 130, 132, 136

Jusserand, 18, 43, 65, 72, 76

Katherine of Aragon, 23

Kenilworth, 109

Knox, John, 75

Kyd, 43-46, 102, 115

_Kynge Johan_, 99

_Lady Windermere's Fan_, 88

Landmann, Dr, 14, 16, 22, 24, 29, 30, 31, 40, 42, 47, 69, 75

Latimer, 36

_Lazarillo de Tormes_, 24

Lee, Sidney, 12, 29-33, 123

Leicester, Earl of, 107, 109, 129

_Libro Aureo_ (v. Guevara)

Liebig, 19

_Literature of Europe_, 33, 34

Lodge, Thomas, 27, 43

Lok, Henry, Thomas, and Michael, 26, 27

London, 7, 71, 78, 91, 114, 119

London, Bishop of, 8

_Love's Labour's Lost_, 110, 113, 127, 128

_Love's Metamorphosis_, 98, 112, 113, 122

Luther, 89

Lyly, John:
character and genius, 3, 51, 62, 63, 123, 137-139
compared with Marlowe, 128-129
courtier and man of fashion, 63, 87, 88, 98, 103, 110, 134, 135
dramatist, 7, 8, 9, 85-131
forerunner of Shakespeare, 43, 47, 95, 100, 101, 102, 105, 109-111,
116, 123, 124, 127-128, 130, 138-139
friends of, 26-28, 39, 42, 46, 53, 54, 61, 133, 135, 137
Jonson's caricature of, 132-133
learning, 17, 20, 38, 69, 86, 95, 119-120, 130, 136-137
life, 4-9, 86-88, 119-120, 132-135
novelist, 10, 64-84
poet, 3, 110, 113, 115-118, 138, 139
position in English literature, 2-3, 10-13, 51, 52-63, 65-69, 73-84,
98-131, 138-140
prose, 3, 11-21, 52-63, 97, 126-127
reputation, 9, 11-13, 43, 57, 58, 60, 61

lyrics, 115-118

Macaulay, G. C., 33

Macaulay, Lord, 80

_Macbeth_, 125

Magdalen College (Oxford), 4, 6, 86, 133

Malory, 66, 67

Marini, 48

_Marius the Epicurean_, 50

Marlowe, 3, 47, 113, 128-129, 137, 138

_Martin Marprelate_, 3, 8, 114, 135-136

Mary (Tudor), 25, 26

Mary (of Scots), 109

masque, 112, 129

Maupassant, Guy de, 75

_Mayde's Metamorphosis_, 119

Mendoza, 23, 24

Meredith, George, 53, 79, 88, 97, 126

_Midas_, 98, 104, 110-112, 117, 122, 125

_Midsummer Night's Dream_ (anticipated by Lyly), 105, 109-111, 123, 127

Milton, 55

miracle-play, the, 89-91, 123

_Monastery, The_, 11

Montemayor, 23, 24

moral court treatise, the, 49, 65, 67, 68, 69, 73, 74, 75

morality-play, the, 70, 89-92, 94, 99, 102, 119, 124

_Morte d'Arthur_, 66, 67

_Mother Bombie_, 98, 105, 114-117

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