Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

English essayist William Hazlitt was a respected writer and lecturer on range of literary subjects, from the characters in Shakespeares plays to the English comic writers to Miltons poetry. This collection of essays, indispensable for students of literature, was drawn from a series of Hazlitts lectures. Included are William Shakespeare, John Lyly, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, John Webster, John Fletcher, Ben Johnson, Thomas Ford, Philip Massinger, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sir Francis Bacon, among many others.