Contents

Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey / 7

Sir Thomas Wyatt (c. 1503–1542) / 8

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) / 15

Appendix / 20

Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1580) / 21

Astrophil and Stella / 23

Appendix / 26

Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599) / 33

Amoretti / 34

The Faerie Queene / 38

Appendix / 60

Th omas Kyd (1558–1594) / 65

The Spanish Tragedy / 66

Appendix / 185

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) / 190

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus / 191

Appendix / 275

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) / 278

Shakespeare’s Sonnets / 279

As You Like It / 286

Macbeth / 390

John Donne (1572–1631) / 493