Chapter 3

THE FIRST DRAMATIC PERIOD

Divisions of Elizabethan Drama--Its general character--Origins--_Ralph_ _Roister Doister_--_Gammer Gurton's Needle_--_Gorboduc_--The Senecan Drama--Other early plays--The "university wits"--Their lives and characters--Lyly (dramas)--The Marlowe group--Peele--Greene--Kyd-- Marlowe--The actor playwrights 50-81