CONTENTS Alfred the Great The Renaissance: Wyatt and Surrey. Tyndale . Chapter IV. From the Accession of Elizabeth to the Closing of Chapter V. From the Closing of the Theatres to the Restora- Puritan and Royalist (or Cavalier) A Famous Attack on the Stage MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS Facsimile of a Page of Caxton's Recuyell Literary Map of England Exeter Cathedral. Caedmon Cross at Whitby Ruins of Whitby Abbey Beowulf Manuscript Durham Cathedral Statue of King Alfred, Winchester St. Martin's Church, near Canterbury William the Conqueror Ruins of Monastery at Glastonbury Mandeville Chaucer The Old Tabard Inn, Southwark Chaucer's Prioress Place of Becket's Martyrdom Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey Caxton and his Printers Reading his First Proof. Sir Philip Sidney Facsimile Title-page of the Arcadia Edmund Spenser . Facsimile of Bacon's Signature Facsimile Title-page of an Early Complete Edition of Bacon's A Pageant Car Performance at Coventry |