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CHAPTER III.
ENGLISH DRAMA.
introductory—george chapman—ben jonson—his theory of comedy—earlier comedies—tragedies—mature comedies—last plays—masques—'sad shepherd'—achievement—marston—dekker—middleton—heywood—webster—his two tragedies—tourneur—beaumont and fletcher—last phase of elizabethan drama—sentimental tragedy and romance—comedy of incident and manners—massinger—ford—shirley—lesser dramatists—conclusion.
The first ten years of the century witnessed the crowning splendour of the Elizabethan drama.[1] The Introductory.genial and mature comedies and heroic histories with which Shakespeare had illumined the closing years of the sixteenth century
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