First published in 1959.

Includes bibliographical references.

A mirror for magistrates revisited, by E. M. W. Tillyard.--Marlowe's light reading, by E. Seaton.--The complaint of Thomas Digges, by F. R. Johnson.--Harington's Folly, by K. M. Lea.--Two notes, by W. W. Greg.--Classical myth in Shakespeare's plays, by D. Bush.--Shakespeare's reading in Chaucer, by N. Coghill.--On Venus and Adonis, by D. C. Allen.--Variations on a theme in Shakespeare's sonnets, by J. B. Leishman.--Shakespeare's use of popular song, by F. W. Sternfeld.--Under which king, Bezonian? by P. Alexander.--The rider on the winged horse, by M. Lascelles.--Sir Walter Raleigh's instructions to his son, by A. M. C. Latham.--Elizabeth, Essex, and James, by J. McManaway.--Hume's history of the reign of James I., by G. Davies.--Some Jacobian catch-phrases and some light on Thomas Bretnor, by J. Crow.--The argument about "The ecstacy," by H. Gardner.--Donne's poetry in the nineteenth century, by K. Tillotson.--Memories of Harley Granville-Barker and two of his friends, by J. D. Wilson.--A select list of the writings of F. P. Wilson, by H. S. Bennett.