Chapter XX

CASTILIAN LITERATURE.--ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY.--LYRICAL POETRY.--
THE DRAMA.
THIS REIGN AN EPOCH IN POLITE LETTERS
ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY
THEIR PERNICIOUS EFFECTS
BALLADS OR ROMANCES
EARLY CULTIVATION IN SPAIN
RESEMBLANCE TO THE ENGLISH
MOORISH MINSTRELSY
ITS DATE AND ORIGIN
ITS HIGH REPUTE
NUMEROUS EDITIONS OF THE BALLADS
LYRIC POETRY
CANCIONERO GENERAL
ITS LITERARY VALUE
LOW STATE OF LYRIC POETRY
COPLAS OF MANRIQUE
RISE OF THE SPANISH DRAMA
TRAGICOMEDY OF CELESTINA
CRITICISM ON IT
IT OPENED THE WAY TO DRAMATIC WRITING
NUMEROUS EDITIONS OF IT
JUAN DE LA ENCINA
HIS DRAMATIC ECLOGUES
TORRES DE NAHARRO
HIS COMEDIES
SIMILAR IN SPIRIT WITH THE LATER DRAMAS
NOT ACTED IN SPAIN
LOW CONDITION OF THE STAGE
TRAGIC DRAMA
OLIVA'S CLASSIC IMITATIONS
NOT POPULAR
NATIONAL SPIRIT OF THE LITERATURE OF THIS EPOCH
MORATIN'S DRAMATIC CRITICISM

PART SECOND.

THE PERIOD WHEN, THE INTERIOR ORGANIZATION OF THE MONARCHY HAVING BEEN COMPLETED, THE SPANISH NATION ENTERED ON ITS SCHEMES OF DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST; OR THE PERIOD ILLUSTRATING MORE PARTICULARLY THE FOREIGN POLICY OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA.