Elizabethan drama; modern essays in criticism. [electronic resource]

F.P. Wilson: Elizabethan and Jacobean drama -- Hardin Craig: The shackling of accidents: a study of Elizabethan tragedy -- G. Wilson Knight: Lyly -- William Empson: The Spanish tragedy -- Irving Ribner: The idea of history in Marlowe's Tamburlaine -- M.M. Mahood: Marlowe's heroes -- Samuel Schoenbaum: The precarious balance of John Marston -- Roy W. Battenhouse: Chapman and the nature of man -- L.C. Knights: Tradition and Ben Jonson -- Ray L. Heffner, Jr.: Unifying symbols in the comedy of Ben Jonson -- Robert Ornstein: The moral vision of Ben Jonson's tragedy -- L.G. Salingar: The revenger's tragedy and the morality tradition -- Hereward T. Price: The function of imagery in Webster -- Inga-Stina Ekeblad: The 'impure art' of John Webster -- John Danby: Beaumont and Fletcher: Jacobean absolutists -- Muriel Bradbrook: Thomas Middleton -- Helen Gardner: The tragedy of damnation -- T.S. Eliot: Philip Massinger -- R.J. Kaufmann: Ford's tragic perspective.