This Stage-Play World - Briggs, Julia (Professor of English and Women's Studies, Professor of English and Women's Studies, De Montfort University, Leicester)

The later years of Elizabeth and the reign of James I were the age of Shakespeare, but also the age of Sidney, Spenser, and Donne, of dramatists Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster, and of prose writers Nashe, Bacon and Burton. This study examines the social conditions which produced this array of talent.