ch. 1. Geoffrey Chaucer -- ch. 2. Piers the plowman -- ch. 3. John Heywood -- ch. 4. Marlowe and "The heavy wrath of God" -- ch. 5. Two Elizabethans: Thomas Lodge ; Ben Jonson -- ch. 6. Shakespeare and Catholicism -- ch. 7. Clerical characters in Shakespeare -- ch. 8. Two religious poets: Robert Southwell ; Richard Crashaw -- ch. 9. Three seventeenth-century dramatists: Shirley and Massinger ; William D'Avenant -- ch. 10. John Dryden.
