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English tragedy before Shakespeare : the development of dramatic speech /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clemen, Wolfgang
Other Authors: Dorsch, T. S. (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, Barnes & Noble [1962, ©1961]
Subjects:
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
English drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan.
English drama (Tragedy)
1500-1600
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The set speech in renaissance drama and contemporary theory
  • 3. The basic types of dramatic set speech
  • 4. Gorboduc
  • 5. English classical plays
  • 6. Locrine
  • 7. Kyd
  • 8. Marlowe I. / Tamburlaine
  • 9. Imitations of Marlowe's Tamburlaine. Selimus and the wounds of civil war
  • 10. Marlow II. The Later Plays
  • 11. Peele
  • 12. Greene
  • 13. Popular drama and history plays
  • 14. The dramatic lament and its forms
  • 15. The Pre-Shakespearian dramatic lament.