Types of English drama /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Macmillan,
1940.
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| Series: | Types of English literature.
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Table of Contents:
- The mystery play: The play of Abraham and Melchizedek and Lot, with the sacrifice of Issac
- The moral play: Everyman
- Romantic comedy: Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, by Robert Greene
- The history play: Edward II, by Christopher Marlowe
- Realistic comedy: The alchemist, by Ben Jonson
- Domestic tragedy: A woman killed with kindness, by Thomas Heywood
- The comedy of manners: The way of the world, by William Congreve
- Song drama: The beggar's opera, by John Gay
- Burlesque drama: The critic, by R. B. Sheridan
- Romantic tragedy: A blot on the 'scutcheon, by Robert Browning
- Farce: The importance of being earnest, by Oscar Wilde
- Realistic tragedy: Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill.