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English tragedy before Shakespeare : the development of dramatic speech / Wolfgang Clemen.

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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 Elizabe...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Clemen, Wolfgang
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:Routledge revivals.
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)
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. Marlowe 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
  • 16. Conclusion.

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