A Biographical Dictionary of Elizabethan Authors

Abstract

T? BRING Up to date the accounts of Elizabethan authors in the 1 Dictionary of National Biography, and to collect similar information on the lives and works of writers not included in that great work, have been my main aims during several years of exploring in English archives and manuscript collections and in the libraries of Harvard and Wisconsin. A research fellowship granted by the Huntington Library made it possible during 1940-41 to concentrate upon gathering such information for eventual publication in a biographical dictionary of Elizabethan authors. Since it will be many years before such a work can be finished, I take this opportunity to suggest what the biographical dictionary is expected to include and to point out some ways in which it may be made still more useful to scholars than the Dictionary of National Biography has been. The Dictionary of Elizabethan Authors is intended to give concise accounts of the lives and works of all English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh authors who wrote books of any kind during the reign of Elizabeth (1558-1603). Within that period it will include authors of manuscript as well as of printed books; writers in Latin or other languages as well as in English; translators as well as original authors; not merely writers of literary interest but writers who were

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