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Restoration tragedy, 1660-1720 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dobrée, Bonamy, 1891-1974
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1929.
Subjects:
English drama > Restoration, 1660-1700 > History and criticism.
English drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The necessity for heroism
  • Restoration criticism; and the trend of writing
  • Blank verse and the heroic couplet
  • Cleopatra and 'That criticall warr.'--John Dryden and artificial tragedy
  • Nat Lee and the tragedy of humours
  • Thomas Otway
  • Nicholas Rowe
  • The mourning bride and Cato
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography (p. [183]-186)--Index.