A short history of England . r, therewas found in his Bible a poem, written the night before his exe-cution, of which these were the last lines : Even such is time, that takes in trust,Our youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us back with age and dust,Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days;But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust. THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH 377 Among prose writers as well as writers of song and drama, BenJonson represented learned, classical, and polished production,and exercised a
A short history of England . r, therewas found in his Bible a poem, written the night before his exe-cution, of which these were the last lines : Even such is time, that takes in trust,Our youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us back with age and dust,Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days;But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust. THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH 377 Among prose writers as well as writers of song and drama, BenJonson represented learned, classical, and polished production,and exercised a strong influence over all the other writers of histime. 339. Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Drama But Shakes-peare was the real crown of the age, and through him we are brought back to the Elizabethan dramacharacteristic form of the great literaturePlays on a great variety of subjects, bothand Latin languages, were given beforeher own court and while she was on herboth by regularly organized companies ofamateur bodies of I. as the mostof that period,in the Englishthe queen atprogresses,players and by ffilP boys, lawyers, gen-tlemen, or the latter partof her reign threetheaters were builtin London, to playat which stockcompanies wereformed. They alsogave plays through-out the countrywhen the plague orother causes haddriven politesociety away fromthe capital. During Elizabeths reign and the succeeding fortyyears not less than two thousand plays were produced, many ofthem written by men of education, of some position in society,and familiar with the old dramas of the Greeks and the other hand, many were written by men connected withthe dramatic companies as players or as regular writers.
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