I have in mind, of course, 'the Elizabethans' as they appear in literary history rather than as they appear in the works of historians proper. Literary students today seem as remote in their interests from historians as historians are from students of literature. It is as rare to find a student of literature who is acquainted with the work of Sir John Neale as to find an historian interested in recent work on Shakespeare or Spenser. Dr. A. L. Rowse is an honourable example of the second rarity.