English Drama Before Shakespeare

ISBN-13: 9780582493742 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 304 str.

Peter Happe; Dr Peter Happe

Opis

An in-depth survey of drama in English up to 1590 which is based upon close readings of selected plays, including Thomas Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedy". The text covers many types of drama such as mystery cycles and the interludes, as well as comedy and tragedy.

Spis treści

Series List  Editors' Preface  Abbreviations  Introduction  1. Historical Continuity and Development: The Scope of Drama, 1350-1590  2. Dramatic Practice, 1350-1590  Part One: The Medieval Drama: 3. Worship, Instruction and Entertainment Liturgical Drama  4. Texts and Mystery Plays and Moralities  5. Staging  6. Dramatic Values 
Part Two: Humanism, Renaissance and Reformation  7. Education and Polemic  Classical Comedy and Tragedy  8. Individual Dramatists up to 1555  9. Interludes  10. Other Dramatic Forms  Part Three: Professional Theatre
11. Theatre and Companies  The Context of the Professional Stage: James Burbage and John Lyly  12. Kyd and Marlowe  13. Greene, Peele and Other Popular Plays, 1580-95  14 Epilogue

O autorze

 Peter Happe