The Age of Shakespeare
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Oct. 20, 2017)
The Age of Shakespeare is a collection of essays on the literary contemporaries of William Shakespeare, by Algernon Charles Swinburne. The work was first published in 1908. T.S. Eliot believed that Swinburne knew his material on this age of literature that he was more valuable than Hazlitt, Coleridge or even Lamb. The work contains essays on Christopher Marlowe, John Webster, Thomas Dekker, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Heywood, George Chapman, Cyril Tourneur.