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English Drama

Forms and Development: Essays in Honour of Murial Clara Bradbrook

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Produktbeschreibung

Ten original essays on English drama from Tudor times onwards examines different aspects on the development of this art form.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780521142557
• ISBN-10: 0521142555
• Artikelnr.: 29609087

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Raymond Williams
1. Folk play in Tudor interludes Richard Axton
2. The Tudor mask and Elizabethan court drama Marie Axton
3. Comic form in Ben Jonson: Volpone and the philosopher's stone Leo Salingar
4. He that plays the king: Ford's Perkin Warbeck and the Stuart history play Anne Barton
5. Medicinable tragedy: the structure of Samson Agonistes and seventeenth-century psychopathology Mary Ann Radzinowicz
6. Exotick but rational entertainments: the english dramatick operas Richard Luckett
7. The significance of Gay's drama Howard Erskine-Hill
8. 'Coming Wonders': uses of theatre in the Victorian novel Gillian Beer
9. Waiting for Prospero John Northam
10. Social environment and theatrical environment: the case of English naturalism Raymond Williams
Notes
Appendix: The books and essays on Muriel C. Bradbrook and a selection of her book reviews Patricia Rignold
Index of plays, operas and entertainments
General index.