00:00:00 Title

BOOK I: THE ENGLISH ECSTASY: 1558 – 1648
00:09:32 Chapter I. THE GREAT QUEEN : 1558 – 1603
I. The Uses of Adversity
II. Elizabethan Government
III. The Amorous Virgin
IV. Elizabeth and Her Court
V. Elizabeth and Religion
VI. Elizabeth and the Catholics
VII. Elizabeth and the Puritans
VIII. Elizabeth and Ireland
IX. Elizabeth and Spain
X. Raleigh and Essex
XI. The Magic Fades

02:13:48 Chapter II. MERRIE ENGLAND : 1558 – 1625
I. At Work
II. In the Schools
III. Virtue and Vice
IV. Justice and the Law
V. In the Home
VI. English Music
VII. English Art
VIII. Elizabethan Man

03:08:00 Chapter III. ON THE SLOPES OF PARNASSUS : 1558 – 1603
I. Books
II. The War of the Wits
III. Philip Sidney
IV. Edmund Spenser
V. The Stage
VI. Christopher Marlowe

04:07:54 Chapter IV. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE : 1564 – 1616
I. Youth
II. Development
III. Mastery
IV. Artistry
V. Philosophy
VI. Reconciliation
VII. Post-Mortem

05:10:48 Chapter V. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS : 1542 – 1587
I. The Fairy Queen
II. Scotland
III. Mary and Knox
IV. The Queen in Love
V. Expiation

06:07:20 Chapter VI. JAMES VI AND I: 1567 – 1625
I. James VI of Scotland
II. James I of England
III. The Gunpowder Plot
IV. The Jacobean Stage
V. Ben Jonson
VI. John Donne
VII. James Sows the Whirlwind

07:29:37 Chapter VII. THE SUMMONS TO REASON : 1558 – 1649
I. Superstition
II. Science
III. The Rise and Fall of Francis Bacon
IV. The Great Renewal
V. A Statesman’s Philosophy
VI. The Chanticleer of Reason

08:31:36 Chapter VIII. THE GREAT REBELLION : 1625 – 1649
I. The Changing Economy
II. The Religious Caldron
III. The Puritans and the Theater
IV. Caroline Prose
V. Caroline Poetry
VI. Charles I versus Parliament
VII. Charles Absolute
VIII. The Long Parliament
IX. The First Civil War
X. The Radicals
XI. Finis