Essay on the Influence of the tragedies of Seneca upon Early English
Drama, prefixed to trans.
Drama, prefixed to trans.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05
Scientific
criticism of Capell. Johnson and Steevens's Text. Malone's edition.
Nineteenth century Editors: Singer; Hudson; Collier; Halliwell-
Phillipps; Delius; Staunton; Grant White; Dyce. The Cambridge
Shakespeare
259
Appendix. Genealogy of the text of Richard III :
281
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Contents
CHAPTER XII
SHAKESPEARE ON THE CONTINENT
By J. G. ROBERTSON, M. A. , B. Sc. (Glasgow), Ph. D. (Leipzig),
Professor of German Language and Literature in the
University of London
PAGE
!
Channels by which Shakespeare reached the Continent. His influence
on German and Dutch Seventeenth Century Drama. Awakening
of interest in the man. Literary importance of the Revocation of
the Edict of Nantes. Voltaire's attitude towards Shakespeare.
His adaptations from Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth.
Abbé Prévost and contemporary French admirers of Shakespeare.
Influence of Voltaire's opinions in Italy. Early Seventeenth Century
indications of appreciation of Shakespeare in Germany. Strength
of Classicism. The Translations of La Place, and their effect on
Voltaire and French Criticism. Sébastien Mercier. Le Tourneur.
Voltaire's last Attacks. Popularity of the Adaptations of Ducis.
German interest in Shakespeare aroused by Lessing. Wieland's
Prose Translation. The new attitude of the Sturm und Drang. Ger-
stenberg's and Herder's Criticism. Shakespeare included in the
répertoire of the German stage. Schröder. The Romantic School.
A. W. Schlegel and his Fellow Workers. Shakespeare's influence on
German Eighteenth Century Literature: on the French Romantic
School. German Shakespearean Scholarship in the Nineteenth
Century. Influence of Hegelianism. Shakespeare and the Modern
German Theatre. The Meiningen Reforms. Introduction of Shake-
speare into other lands, chiefly through French or German Trans-
lations. Value of recent American Criticism
?
283
CHAPTER XIII
LESSER ELIZABETHAN DRAMATISTS
By the Rev. RONALD BAYNE, M. A. , University College, Oxford
General characteristics of Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists. Their names
according to Henslowe's Diary and Meres's list. Anthony Mun-
day's career (1553-1633) and industry as a writer: translations
of Fedele and Fortunio: The Weakest goeth to the Wall: his
extant Plays founded on Ballads and Folk-lore. Henry Chettle's
early life: his Tragedies : The Tragedy of Hoffman. Haughton's
Comedies: Grim the Collier of Croyden and English-Men For
my Money. Porter's Two angry women of Abington. Hathwaye.
Robert Wilson. Wentworth Smith. Michael Drayton's dramatic
work. John Day's early work. Samuel Rowley's When you see
me, You know me. English imitation of French Senecan Drama.
Fulke Greville's Mustapha and Alaham
309
O
.
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Contents
xiii
CHAPTER XIV
SOME POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE LATER
ELIZABETHAN AND EARLIER STEWART PERIOD
By A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A.
PAGE
Main features of the English Renascence at its height. Contrast be-
tween the beginning and the end of the age. Literary significance
of the later years of Elizabeth's reign. Strength of the Tudor
Monarchy and Popular Sentiment. Dramatists and the Divine
Right of Kings. Question of the Queen's Marriage. Her attitude
towards the Religious Problem. Struggle for the English Throne.
Elizabeth's Ministers before and after the crisis. Vigour and
activity of the New Generation. Elizabeth's Court. Education of
the Courtier. Contrast between Court and Country. Gradual
change in social conditions; amalgamation of New and Old Nobility.
Rise of Prices and advance of Trade and Industry. Increased luxury
in Diet and Dress. Horticulture. Drinking. Tobacco. The
Army and Navy in Elizabeth's time. Position of the Clergy and
causes of their disrepute. Changes in the Universities; jobbery in
Schools and Universities and in the Church. Puritanism and the
Dramatists. Growth of London and its causes. Increase of Liti-
gation and its effects on the Legal Profession. The Medical Pro-
fession. Authors and their troubles. Attention paid to the Fine
Arts. Social conditions of the Trading and Yeoman Classes.
Depression of the Labouring Class. Serving-men. Treatment of
the Poor, Vagabonds and Criminals. General unrest and high
spirit. The Women of the age
336
Bibliographies.
381
0
Table of Principal Dates
483
0
Index of Names
487
.
.
.
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME V. THE DRAMA TO 1642
PART I
Second Impression, 1918, Corrections and Additions
The errata mentioned in volumes of the History published later than the first
edition of this volume have been corrected in the present impression. In addition,
some misprints noticed later have been corrected, and a few alterations made. A list
of the more important of these follows:
p. 158, 11. 1, 2 The pamphlet entitled The Poisoninge, etc. has been omitted.
p. 221 added at the end of the Hamlet paragraph
[But see Bullen, A. H. , in The Times, 3. xii. 1913. ]
p. 314 a footnote has been added
[See, however, bibliography, post, p. 474. ]
p. 366, 11. 18–23 for influx of population. . . quintupled read influx of inhabitants into
London and its suburbs was very notable. The overgrowth of the population beyond
the walls was, indeed, arrested by drastic provisions, dating from 1580; but the total
of the metropolitan population increased with extraordinary rapidity, and, in the
century after the accession of Elizabeth, probably, at least quintupled
p. 372, 11. 33-36 for revenges. . . work. read revenges on both sides; and, finally, the
Star chamber, which, in 1634, had ordered the burning of Prynne's Histrio-Mastix,
and inflicted what shame it could inflict upon the author of that work, was, seven
years later, swept away with the High Commission court, and several other tyrannical
tribunals.
pp. 381-4 added to the General Bibliography:
Boyer, C. V. The villain as hero in Elizabethan tragedy. 1914.
Mod. Lang. Rev. , General Index to volumes 1-x, Cambridge, 1915.
p. 386 added to the bibliography of chapter II:
Moorman, F. W. A Yorkshire Folk-Play. Essays and Studies. Oxford, 1911.
pp. 387-94 added to the bibliography of chapter III:
Greg, W. W. Bibliographical and Textual Problems of the English Miracle Cycles.
1914.
Dodds, M. H. The Problem of the Ludus Coventriae. Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. ix,
1914.
Smart, W. K. Some English and Latin Sources and Parallels for the Morality of
Wisdom. Wisconsin, 1912.
p. 393, 11, 1, 2 for Waley. . . fragment. read Waley, J. (c. 1557); by Copland, W.
(c. 1562); and earlier (see fragment in Lambeth Palace library).
## p. xvi (#22) #############################################
xvi
pp. 394-9 added to the bibliography of chapter IV:
Spearing, E. M. The Elizabethan Tenne Tragedies of Seneca. Mod. Lang. Rev.
vol. iv, 1908.
Cunliffe, J. W. (ed. ). Early English Classical Tragedies Gorboduc or Ferrex and
Porrex, Jocasta, Gismond of Salerne, The Misfortunes of Arthur. Oxford, 1912.
Manly, J. M.
Essay on the Influence of the tragedies of Seneca upon Early English
Drama, prefixed to trans. of Seneca's Tragedies into English Verse by Miller, F. J.
Chicago, 1907.
pp. 401-14 added to the bibliography of chapter V:
Bond, R. W. Early Plays from the Italian. Supposes, The Buggbears, Misogonus.
Oxford, 1911.
Feuillerat, A. Documents relating to the Revels at Court in the time of King Edward VI
>
and Queen Mary. Bang's Materialien, XLIV, 1914.
Wallace, C. W. The Evolution of the English Drama up to Shakespeare. Berlin,
1912.
Reed, A. W. John Heywood and his Friends. The Library. 1917.
p. 411 W. H. Williams's edition of Jacke Jugeler was published in 1914 by the
Cambridge University Press.
p. 413 1. 44 the following has been added : Photographic facsimile and reprint, ed.
Tucker Brooke, C. F. Yale and Oxford, 1915.
pp. 414–21 added to the bibliography of chapter VI:
Arraignment of Paris, The. Edd. Child, H. H. and Greg, W. W. Malone Soc. 1910.
Jordan, J. C. Robert Greene. Columbia Univ. Press, 1915.
p. 419 The J. M. Brown entry has been altered as follows :
Brown, J. M. An Early Rival of Shakespere. The New Zealand Magazine, Auckland,
No. 6, April 1877, pp. 97-133.
p. 423 added to the bibliography of chapter VII:
Baker, G. P. Dramatic Technique in Marlowe. Essays and Studies. Vol. iv. Oxford,
1913.
pp. 456-72 bibliography of chapter XII:
p. 457 The C. A. Richter entry has been altered as follows:
Richter, C. A. Shakespeare in Deutschland in den Jahren 1739-1770. Oppeln, 1912.
p. 460 added under 12. III. i. b. :
Ballantyne, A. Voltaire's Visit to England 1726-29. 1893.
p. 467 added under 12. III. vi. :
See, also, Lirondelle, A. , Shakespeare en Russie 1748–1840, Paris, 1912.
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression.
p. 89, 11. 26–29 for At an early age. . . received read It has been believed hitherto that,
at an early age, Heywood entered the royal service, probably as a chorister, since, on
21 January 1514/15 'John Haywoode' is set down in the Book of Payments of
Henry VIII as receiving wages at 8d. per day. But the reference appears to be to a
yeoman usher of the same name. There is no doubt, however, that the dramatist
is the 'John Haywoode, synger' to whom a series of payments were made in 1519
and 1520. [footnote. See Reed, A. W. , “John Heywood and his friends,' The Library,
July 1917, pp. 250-6. For further grants and pensions to Heywood, see, also, pp.
268-9. ] In 1525, he received
pp. 426-56 add to the bibliography of chapters VIII-XI:
8 1. Annotated catalogue of the Shakespeare Exhibition held at the Grafton Galleries,
London, 1916.
Bartlett, H. C. Catalogue of the exhibition of Shakespeareana held at the New
York Public Library, April 2 to July 15, 1916. New York, 1917.
## p. xvii (#23) ############################################
xvii
Bartlett, H. C. and Pollard, A. W. A census of Shakespeare's plays in quarto,
1594-1709. New Haven and London, 1916.
Catalogue of the Shakespeare exhibition held in the Bodleian Library to com-
memorate the death of Shakespeare. Oxford, 1916.
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography (pp. 729). Stratford-on-Avon, 1911.
Pollard, A. W. Shakespeare's fight with the pirates and the problems of the
transmission of the text. (Sandars Lectures 1915. ) 1917.
83. Morgann's Essay on Falstaff (see p. 433). Ed. by Gill, W. A. Oxford, 1912.
Also rptd in Smith, D. N. , Eighteenth century essays on Shakespeare,
1903.
The Tragedy of King Richard II. Printed 1598. Reproduced in facsimile. With
an introduction by Pollard, A. W. 1916.
$4, Sonnets. From the quarto of 1609, with variorum readings and commentary.
Ed. by Alden, R. M. 1916.
8. Ainger, A. Lectures and Essays. 1905.
Brooke, S. A. Ten more plays of Shakespeare. 1913.
Matthews, J. B. Shakespeare as a playwright. 1913.
Pater, W. Appreciations. 1889.
Robertson, J. M. Shakespeare and Chapman. 1917.
Saintsbury, G. Shakespeare and the grand style. (Essays and Studies. Vol. 1.
Oxford 1910. )
Shaksperian Studies, by members of. . . Columbia University. Ed. by Matthews, B.
and Thorndike, A. H. New York, 1916.
Stephen, Sir Leslie. Shakespeare as a man. (Studies of a Biographer. Ser. ii,
vol. iv.
1902. )
Stopes, C. C. Shakespeare's industry. 1916.
Suddard, S. J. M. Essais de littérature anglaise. Cambridge, 1912.
Keats, Shelley, and Shakespeare. Cambridge, 1912.
criticism of Capell. Johnson and Steevens's Text. Malone's edition.
Nineteenth century Editors: Singer; Hudson; Collier; Halliwell-
Phillipps; Delius; Staunton; Grant White; Dyce. The Cambridge
Shakespeare
259
Appendix. Genealogy of the text of Richard III :
281
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xii
Contents
CHAPTER XII
SHAKESPEARE ON THE CONTINENT
By J. G. ROBERTSON, M. A. , B. Sc. (Glasgow), Ph. D. (Leipzig),
Professor of German Language and Literature in the
University of London
PAGE
!
Channels by which Shakespeare reached the Continent. His influence
on German and Dutch Seventeenth Century Drama. Awakening
of interest in the man. Literary importance of the Revocation of
the Edict of Nantes. Voltaire's attitude towards Shakespeare.
His adaptations from Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth.
Abbé Prévost and contemporary French admirers of Shakespeare.
Influence of Voltaire's opinions in Italy. Early Seventeenth Century
indications of appreciation of Shakespeare in Germany. Strength
of Classicism. The Translations of La Place, and their effect on
Voltaire and French Criticism. Sébastien Mercier. Le Tourneur.
Voltaire's last Attacks. Popularity of the Adaptations of Ducis.
German interest in Shakespeare aroused by Lessing. Wieland's
Prose Translation. The new attitude of the Sturm und Drang. Ger-
stenberg's and Herder's Criticism. Shakespeare included in the
répertoire of the German stage. Schröder. The Romantic School.
A. W. Schlegel and his Fellow Workers. Shakespeare's influence on
German Eighteenth Century Literature: on the French Romantic
School. German Shakespearean Scholarship in the Nineteenth
Century. Influence of Hegelianism. Shakespeare and the Modern
German Theatre. The Meiningen Reforms. Introduction of Shake-
speare into other lands, chiefly through French or German Trans-
lations. Value of recent American Criticism
?
283
CHAPTER XIII
LESSER ELIZABETHAN DRAMATISTS
By the Rev. RONALD BAYNE, M. A. , University College, Oxford
General characteristics of Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists. Their names
according to Henslowe's Diary and Meres's list. Anthony Mun-
day's career (1553-1633) and industry as a writer: translations
of Fedele and Fortunio: The Weakest goeth to the Wall: his
extant Plays founded on Ballads and Folk-lore. Henry Chettle's
early life: his Tragedies : The Tragedy of Hoffman. Haughton's
Comedies: Grim the Collier of Croyden and English-Men For
my Money. Porter's Two angry women of Abington. Hathwaye.
Robert Wilson. Wentworth Smith. Michael Drayton's dramatic
work. John Day's early work. Samuel Rowley's When you see
me, You know me. English imitation of French Senecan Drama.
Fulke Greville's Mustapha and Alaham
309
O
.
## p. xiii (#19) ############################################
Contents
xiii
CHAPTER XIV
SOME POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE LATER
ELIZABETHAN AND EARLIER STEWART PERIOD
By A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A.
PAGE
Main features of the English Renascence at its height. Contrast be-
tween the beginning and the end of the age. Literary significance
of the later years of Elizabeth's reign. Strength of the Tudor
Monarchy and Popular Sentiment. Dramatists and the Divine
Right of Kings. Question of the Queen's Marriage. Her attitude
towards the Religious Problem. Struggle for the English Throne.
Elizabeth's Ministers before and after the crisis. Vigour and
activity of the New Generation. Elizabeth's Court. Education of
the Courtier. Contrast between Court and Country. Gradual
change in social conditions; amalgamation of New and Old Nobility.
Rise of Prices and advance of Trade and Industry. Increased luxury
in Diet and Dress. Horticulture. Drinking. Tobacco. The
Army and Navy in Elizabeth's time. Position of the Clergy and
causes of their disrepute. Changes in the Universities; jobbery in
Schools and Universities and in the Church. Puritanism and the
Dramatists. Growth of London and its causes. Increase of Liti-
gation and its effects on the Legal Profession. The Medical Pro-
fession. Authors and their troubles. Attention paid to the Fine
Arts. Social conditions of the Trading and Yeoman Classes.
Depression of the Labouring Class. Serving-men. Treatment of
the Poor, Vagabonds and Criminals. General unrest and high
spirit. The Women of the age
336
Bibliographies.
381
0
Table of Principal Dates
483
0
Index of Names
487
.
.
.
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>
展。
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第
## p. xv (#21) ##############################################
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME V. THE DRAMA TO 1642
PART I
Second Impression, 1918, Corrections and Additions
The errata mentioned in volumes of the History published later than the first
edition of this volume have been corrected in the present impression. In addition,
some misprints noticed later have been corrected, and a few alterations made. A list
of the more important of these follows:
p. 158, 11. 1, 2 The pamphlet entitled The Poisoninge, etc. has been omitted.
p. 221 added at the end of the Hamlet paragraph
[But see Bullen, A. H. , in The Times, 3. xii. 1913. ]
p. 314 a footnote has been added
[See, however, bibliography, post, p. 474. ]
p. 366, 11. 18–23 for influx of population. . . quintupled read influx of inhabitants into
London and its suburbs was very notable. The overgrowth of the population beyond
the walls was, indeed, arrested by drastic provisions, dating from 1580; but the total
of the metropolitan population increased with extraordinary rapidity, and, in the
century after the accession of Elizabeth, probably, at least quintupled
p. 372, 11. 33-36 for revenges. . . work. read revenges on both sides; and, finally, the
Star chamber, which, in 1634, had ordered the burning of Prynne's Histrio-Mastix,
and inflicted what shame it could inflict upon the author of that work, was, seven
years later, swept away with the High Commission court, and several other tyrannical
tribunals.
pp. 381-4 added to the General Bibliography:
Boyer, C. V. The villain as hero in Elizabethan tragedy. 1914.
Mod. Lang. Rev. , General Index to volumes 1-x, Cambridge, 1915.
p. 386 added to the bibliography of chapter II:
Moorman, F. W. A Yorkshire Folk-Play. Essays and Studies. Oxford, 1911.
pp. 387-94 added to the bibliography of chapter III:
Greg, W. W. Bibliographical and Textual Problems of the English Miracle Cycles.
1914.
Dodds, M. H. The Problem of the Ludus Coventriae. Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. ix,
1914.
Smart, W. K. Some English and Latin Sources and Parallels for the Morality of
Wisdom. Wisconsin, 1912.
p. 393, 11, 1, 2 for Waley. . . fragment. read Waley, J. (c. 1557); by Copland, W.
(c. 1562); and earlier (see fragment in Lambeth Palace library).
## p. xvi (#22) #############################################
xvi
pp. 394-9 added to the bibliography of chapter IV:
Spearing, E. M. The Elizabethan Tenne Tragedies of Seneca. Mod. Lang. Rev.
vol. iv, 1908.
Cunliffe, J. W. (ed. ). Early English Classical Tragedies Gorboduc or Ferrex and
Porrex, Jocasta, Gismond of Salerne, The Misfortunes of Arthur. Oxford, 1912.
Manly, J. M.
Essay on the Influence of the tragedies of Seneca upon Early English
Drama, prefixed to trans. of Seneca's Tragedies into English Verse by Miller, F. J.
Chicago, 1907.
pp. 401-14 added to the bibliography of chapter V:
Bond, R. W. Early Plays from the Italian. Supposes, The Buggbears, Misogonus.
Oxford, 1911.
Feuillerat, A. Documents relating to the Revels at Court in the time of King Edward VI
>
and Queen Mary. Bang's Materialien, XLIV, 1914.
Wallace, C. W. The Evolution of the English Drama up to Shakespeare. Berlin,
1912.
Reed, A. W. John Heywood and his Friends. The Library. 1917.
p. 411 W. H. Williams's edition of Jacke Jugeler was published in 1914 by the
Cambridge University Press.
p. 413 1. 44 the following has been added : Photographic facsimile and reprint, ed.
Tucker Brooke, C. F. Yale and Oxford, 1915.
pp. 414–21 added to the bibliography of chapter VI:
Arraignment of Paris, The. Edd. Child, H. H. and Greg, W. W. Malone Soc. 1910.
Jordan, J. C. Robert Greene. Columbia Univ. Press, 1915.
p. 419 The J. M. Brown entry has been altered as follows :
Brown, J. M. An Early Rival of Shakespere. The New Zealand Magazine, Auckland,
No. 6, April 1877, pp. 97-133.
p. 423 added to the bibliography of chapter VII:
Baker, G. P. Dramatic Technique in Marlowe. Essays and Studies. Vol. iv. Oxford,
1913.
pp. 456-72 bibliography of chapter XII:
p. 457 The C. A. Richter entry has been altered as follows:
Richter, C. A. Shakespeare in Deutschland in den Jahren 1739-1770. Oppeln, 1912.
p. 460 added under 12. III. i. b. :
Ballantyne, A. Voltaire's Visit to England 1726-29. 1893.
p. 467 added under 12. III. vi. :
See, also, Lirondelle, A. , Shakespeare en Russie 1748–1840, Paris, 1912.
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression.
p. 89, 11. 26–29 for At an early age. . . received read It has been believed hitherto that,
at an early age, Heywood entered the royal service, probably as a chorister, since, on
21 January 1514/15 'John Haywoode' is set down in the Book of Payments of
Henry VIII as receiving wages at 8d. per day. But the reference appears to be to a
yeoman usher of the same name. There is no doubt, however, that the dramatist
is the 'John Haywoode, synger' to whom a series of payments were made in 1519
and 1520. [footnote. See Reed, A. W. , “John Heywood and his friends,' The Library,
July 1917, pp. 250-6. For further grants and pensions to Heywood, see, also, pp.
268-9. ] In 1525, he received
pp. 426-56 add to the bibliography of chapters VIII-XI:
8 1. Annotated catalogue of the Shakespeare Exhibition held at the Grafton Galleries,
London, 1916.
Bartlett, H. C. Catalogue of the exhibition of Shakespeareana held at the New
York Public Library, April 2 to July 15, 1916. New York, 1917.
## p. xvii (#23) ############################################
xvii
Bartlett, H. C. and Pollard, A. W. A census of Shakespeare's plays in quarto,
1594-1709. New Haven and London, 1916.
Catalogue of the Shakespeare exhibition held in the Bodleian Library to com-
memorate the death of Shakespeare. Oxford, 1916.
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography (pp. 729). Stratford-on-Avon, 1911.
Pollard, A. W. Shakespeare's fight with the pirates and the problems of the
transmission of the text. (Sandars Lectures 1915. ) 1917.
83. Morgann's Essay on Falstaff (see p. 433). Ed. by Gill, W. A. Oxford, 1912.
Also rptd in Smith, D. N. , Eighteenth century essays on Shakespeare,
1903.
The Tragedy of King Richard II. Printed 1598. Reproduced in facsimile. With
an introduction by Pollard, A. W. 1916.
$4, Sonnets. From the quarto of 1609, with variorum readings and commentary.
Ed. by Alden, R. M. 1916.
8. Ainger, A. Lectures and Essays. 1905.
Brooke, S. A. Ten more plays of Shakespeare. 1913.
Matthews, J. B. Shakespeare as a playwright. 1913.
Pater, W. Appreciations. 1889.
Robertson, J. M. Shakespeare and Chapman. 1917.
Saintsbury, G. Shakespeare and the grand style. (Essays and Studies. Vol. 1.
Oxford 1910. )
Shaksperian Studies, by members of. . . Columbia University. Ed. by Matthews, B.
and Thorndike, A. H. New York, 1916.
Stephen, Sir Leslie. Shakespeare as a man. (Studies of a Biographer. Ser. ii,
vol. iv.
1902. )
Stopes, C. C. Shakespeare's industry. 1916.
Suddard, S. J. M. Essais de littérature anglaise. Cambridge, 1912.
Keats, Shelley, and Shakespeare. Cambridge, 1912.
