This fascinating survey of the major Elizabethan dramatists (excluding Shakespeare) has the quirks of all of Eliot's critical writing: his tendency to sweeping statements, his probing intellect and wit, his brilliant aperçus, his totally lack of doubt in his total rightness. I found this among the most satisfying of his critical collections that I have read, for although I have read very little of the work he discusses, his evident love for the plays became infectious. ( )