Themes and conventions of Elizabethan tragedy
The first edition of this book formed a basis for an approach to Elizabethan poetic drama as a performing art, and influenced such people as Kosintesev and Eisentein. This new edition offers further chapters, including a comparison of dramatists before and after Shakespeare.
Print Book, English, 1980
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1980
History
viii, 270 pages ; 22 cm
9780521043021, 9780521091084, 9780521227704, 9780521296953, 0521043026, 052109108X, 0521227704, 0521296951
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Preface to the second edition; Part I. The Theatre: 1. Introduction; 2. Conventions of presentation and acting; 3. Conventions of action; 4. Elizabethan habits of reading, writing and listening; 5. Conventions of speech; Part II. The Dramatists: 6. Christopher Marlowe; 7. Cyril Tourneur; 8. John Webster; 9. Thomas Middleton; 10. Character, identity and the performer's art in Elizabethan drama; Outline of related studies 1935–78; Index.