Lowell’s lectures on the playwrights who surrounded Shakespeare, published after his death with a note by Charles Eliot Norton. He weighs Marlowe’s mighty line, Webster’s terror, Chapman’s grandeur, the partnership of Beaumont and Fletcher, and the gentlemanly dignity of Massinger and Ford, quoting generously from each.
Graceful criticism by a leading American man of letters, for anyone exploring Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Download the free EPUB.