Author: Benjamin Brawley
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332970653
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Excerpt from A Short History of the English Drama This book makes no special effort to be either original or profound. It aims simply to set forth in brief compass the main facts that one might wish to have at hand in his first course in the English Drama. The great revival of interest in this subject within recent years has produced many noteworthy studies, especially in the literature of the age of Elizabeth; but, singularly enough, most of the books that have been written have been for those who already knew most about the subject. The present work pre supposes only that the student has had an elementary col lege course in the history of English Literature, and with just so much as a basis it endeavors to assist him as he passes on to the study of the greatest of the forms that this literature has so far assumed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Short History of the English Drama (Classic Reprint)
Author: Benjamin Brawley
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332970653
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Excerpt from A Short History of the English Drama This book makes no special effort to be either original or profound. It aims simply to set forth in brief compass the main facts that one might wish to have at hand in his first course in the English Drama. The great revival of interest in this subject within recent years has produced many noteworthy studies, especially in the literature of the age of Elizabeth; but, singularly enough, most of the books that have been written have been for those who already knew most about the subject. The present work pre supposes only that the student has had an elementary col lege course in the history of English Literature, and with just so much as a basis it endeavors to assist him as he passes on to the study of the greatest of the forms that this literature has so far assumed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332970653
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Excerpt from A Short History of the English Drama This book makes no special effort to be either original or profound. It aims simply to set forth in brief compass the main facts that one might wish to have at hand in his first course in the English Drama. The great revival of interest in this subject within recent years has produced many noteworthy studies, especially in the literature of the age of Elizabeth; but, singularly enough, most of the books that have been written have been for those who already knew most about the subject. The present work pre supposes only that the student has had an elementary col lege course in the history of English Literature, and with just so much as a basis it endeavors to assist him as he passes on to the study of the greatest of the forms that this literature has so far assumed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Short History of the English Drama
Author: Benjamin Brawley
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A Short History of English Drama
Author: Benjamin Ifor Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A Brief History of the English Drama from the Earliest to the Latest Times (Classic Reprint)
Author: William Echard Golden
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266373988
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Excerpt from A Brief History of the English Drama From the Earliest to the Latest Times The powers of abstract thought necessary for the conception, even more than the com prehension of the dramatic form, denotes a certain stage of civilization that need not be demanded by either the lyric or-epic. A savage can feel a, song, can understand a story. To comprehend a play something more is necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266373988
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Excerpt from A Brief History of the English Drama From the Earliest to the Latest Times The powers of abstract thought necessary for the conception, even more than the com prehension of the dramatic form, denotes a certain stage of civilization that need not be demanded by either the lyric or-epic. A savage can feel a, song, can understand a story. To comprehend a play something more is necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Short History of English Renaissance Drama
Author: Helen Hackett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857723367
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparkling new book, Helen Hackett explores the historical contexts of English Renaissance drama by situating it in the wider history of ideas. She traces the origins of Renaissance theatre in communal religious drama, civic pageantry and court entertainment and vividly describes the playing conditions of Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouses. Examining Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson in turn, the author assesses the distinctive contribution made by each playwright to the creation of English drama. She then turns to revenge tragedy, with its gothic poetry of sex and death; city comedy, domestic tragedy and tragicomedy; and gender and drama, with female roles played by boy actors in commercial playhouses while women participated in drama at court and elsewhere. The book places Renaissance drama in the exciting and vibrant cosmopolitanism of sixteenth-century London.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857723367
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparkling new book, Helen Hackett explores the historical contexts of English Renaissance drama by situating it in the wider history of ideas. She traces the origins of Renaissance theatre in communal religious drama, civic pageantry and court entertainment and vividly describes the playing conditions of Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouses. Examining Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson in turn, the author assesses the distinctive contribution made by each playwright to the creation of English drama. She then turns to revenge tragedy, with its gothic poetry of sex and death; city comedy, domestic tragedy and tragicomedy; and gender and drama, with female roles played by boy actors in commercial playhouses while women participated in drama at court and elsewhere. The book places Renaissance drama in the exciting and vibrant cosmopolitanism of sixteenth-century London.
The Relative Value of the Acted and Unacted Drama. A Lecture ... Reprinted from the Monthly Magazine
Author: Frederick Guest TOMLINS
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
A History of English Drama 1660-1900
Author: Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521109314
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521109314
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
The Bibliographer
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Guide to Reprints
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Category : Editions
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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Category : Editions
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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Essays, reprinted from the Edinburgh review. Complete ed
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 870
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