The Tudor and Stuart period in Britain, the time of Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, Drayton, Herrick and many others, was a time when fairies featured repeatedly in poetry and drama. This book is a detailed examination of the fairies of the era, as they are depicted in the verse of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.The book is divided into three parts. The first part surveys the medieval background- how fairies were portrayed in the romances, poems...