A Guide to English Literature: The age of Shakespeare

action actors Antony audience Bacon Beaumont Bussy Cambridge century Chapman characters civility classical Cleopatra comedy comic conception contrast conventions Coriolanus court courtiers courtly criticism death drama dramatists E. K. Chambers Elizabethan emotion England English English Studies Essays example expression F. R. Leavis Faustus feeling Fletcher Hamlet hath Henry hero honour human humour imagery images imagination Jacobean Jonson King Lear L. C. Knights language literary literature London M. C. Bradbrook Macbeth Marlowe Marlowe's Marston Middleton modern moral Nashe's nature night Othello passion Pericles philosophical phrase play plot poem poet poetic poetry political popular prose Puritans Ralegh Renaissance revenge Revenger's Tragedy rhetoric romantic satire scene sense Shakespeare Sidney social sonnet speech Spenser stage style symbolic T. S. Eliot Tamburlaine theatre thee theme things thou tion tradition tragedy tragic Troilus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night verse Volpone whole words writing