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The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare

The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare

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Elizabethan scholar, Mr. A. H. Bullen, who, putting aside for a while much more important work, has shown me the great kindness of reading the proofs of this volume.

J.        

Saint Haon-le-Chatel,
Nov., 1890.


CONTENTS.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 5
EXPLANATORY LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 11
INTRODUCTION 23
CHAPTER I.
BEFORE SHAKESPEARE 31
           I. Remote origin of the novel—Old historical romances or epics—Beowulf.
The French conquest of England in the eleventh century—The mind and literature of the new-comers—Their romances, their short tales
31
II. Effects of the conquest on the minds of the English inhabitants—Slow awakening of the native writers—Awakening of the clerks, of the translators and imitators—The English inhabitants connected through a literary imposture with Troy and the classical nations of antiquity—Consequences of this imposture.
Chaucer—His lack of influence on later prose novelists—The short prose tales of the French never acclimatized in England before the Renaissance—More's Latin "Utopia"
37
III. Printing—Caxton's rôle—Part allotted to fiction in the list of his books—Morte Darthur.
Development of printing—Mediæval romances set in type in the sixteenth century
52
CHAPTER II.
TUDOR TIMES—THE FASHIONS AND THE NOVEL 69
I. The Renaissance and the awakening of a wider curiosity—Travelling in Italy—Ascham's censures 69
II. Italian invasion of England—Italian books translated, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, &c.
English collections of short stories imitated from the French or Italian—Separate short stories—Lucrece of Sienna—A "travelling literature"
74
III. Learning—Erasmus' judgment and prophecies—The part played by women—They want books written for themselves—Queen Elizabeth, her talk, her tastes, her dress, her portraits—The "paper work" architecture of the time 87
CHAPTER III.
LYLY AND HIS "EUPHUES" 103
I. "Euphues," a book for women 103
II. "Euphuism," its foreign origin—How embellished and perfected by Lyly—Fanciful natural history of the time—The mediæval bestiaries—Topsell's scientific works 106
III. The plot of the novel—Moral tendencies of "Euphues"—Lyly's precepts concerning men, women and children 123
IV. Lyly's popularity—Courtly talk of the time—Translations and abbreviations of "Euphues" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 135
CHAPTER IV.
LYLY'S LEGATEES 145
I. Lyly's influence—His principal heirs and successors, Riche, Dickenson, Melbancke, Munday, Warner, Greene, Lodge, &c. 145
II. Robert Greene's biography—His autobiographical tales—His life and repentance, characteristic of the times 150
III. His love stories and romantic tales—His

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