English Tragedy before Shakespeare : The Development of Dramatic Speech

ISBN-13: 9780415618595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 304 str.

Wolfgang Clemen

Opis

First published in English 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy. The work offers positive standards by which to assess the development of pre-Shakespearean drama and, by tracing certain characteristics in Elizabethan tragedy which were to have a bearing on Shakespeare's dramatic technique, helps to illuminate the foundations on which Shakespeare built his dramatic oeuvre.

Spis treści

Part 1  1. Introduction  2. The Set Speech in Renaissance Drama and Contemporary Theory  3. The Basic Types of Dramatic Set Speech  Part 2  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. Marlowe II. The Later Plays  11. Peele  12. Greene  13. Popular Drama and History Plays  Part 3  14. The Dramatic Lament and Its Forms  15. The Pre-Shakespearian Dramatic Lament

O autorze

Wolfgang Clemen