CHAPTER I. The Pilgrimage to Canterbury

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
5. INTRODUCTION 3
6. EARLY RENAISSANCE
7. CHAPTER I. The Pilgrimage to Canterbury 13
8. CHAPTER 2. Hierarchy in the Mystery Plays 63
9. HIGH RENAISSANCE
10. CHAPTER 3. The Ideal and the Real 101
11. CHAPTER 4. Spenser and the Pagan Gods 143
12. CHAPTER 5. A Kingdom for a Stage 193
13. CHAPTER 6. Shakespeare's Artistic Allegiance 239
14. MANNERISM AND CLASSICISM
15. CHAPTER 7. Varieties of Seventeenth-Century Prose 279
16. CHAPTER 8. The World as Anagram: The Poetry of George Herbert 301
17. NOTES 343
18. INDEX 369