- To show that music was very dear to the English of Shakspere's CHAPTER XIV THE MUSIC OF SHAKSPERE'S TIME-II . out- PAGE 3 28 The music that Shakspere knew "discant" Pope Gregory - great - - - - and " prick- - - of secular music derivations of the name and nature of the - musical declamation-different kinds of instrumental music- - part-songs played by instruments-music for virginals Queen CHAPTER XV THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF SHAKSPERE'S TIME-I -- The treatment of domestic life to centre upon Shakspere himself - CHAPTER XVI THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF SHAKSPERE'S TIME-II - - To give a ground-plan of the romance of Shakspere's youth for - - PAGE 61 73 - inn-yards in which plays were then given the inn-yard was wood the Epigrammatist"-suggestion in The Four P's of the porter's soliloquy in Macbeth-its flippant treatment of great matters childishness of sixteenth-century audience— the interlude has really a moral purpose Shakspere's own more reverential nature -extracts from The Four P's - ras cality of the characters and low plane of the whole thing the contest in lying-childish idea of hell exhibited—the Palmer - - - Last lecture dealt with several early founts of English humour - - contemporary stage devices — extract from Every Man in his Humour-representative plays of the time- Kyd's Spanish Tragedy Robert Greene and his abuse of Shakspere - his Groatsworth of Wit and its famous fling at his rival - Chettle's apology for his own part in this — Greene's influence on Shak- spere-the first English comedy and tragedy - Nicholas Udall and his Ralph Royster Doyster — its date —plot of the play and extracts― Anne Hathaway's escapade — possibly some such ad- venture the original of the many female masqueraders in men's clothes in Shakspere's plays after a week Shakspere sees a tragedy Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst - style and argu- ment of his Gorbo duc, the first English tragedy - the quaint The modern doctor and modern medicine really begin in these spacious times of the great Elizabeth — importance of the phy- sicians in any picture of modern society― connection between music and physic in the sixteenth century-Shakspere's por- trayal of the ideal doctor, Cerimon, in Pericles- sibly drawn from Shakspere's son-in-law, Dr. John Hall-the elder John Hall and his Historical Expostulation Against the Beastly Abuses both of Chirurgery and Physyke in Oure Tyme- Dr. Hall's ideas of the true chirurgeon"—absurdities of his Dr. Thomas Gale and his tale of the army surgeons — the - - |