CHAPTER IX. THE ELIZABETHAN PROSE-WRITERS.

Elizabethan prose--Two schools of writers--Roger Ascham--His books and style--Webbe and Puttenham--The sentence--Euphuism--The _Arcadia_--Sidney’s style--Short stories--Nash’s _Unfortunate Traveller_--Nash and the pamphleteers--Martin Marprelate--Origin of the Marprelate Tracts--The _Diotrephes_--Course of the controversy--Its place in literary history--Hooker--_The Ecclesiastical Polity_ 259