| Description |
ix, 245 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 211-242). |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Makings of Elizabethan drama: 1. Introduction -- 2. Popular drama: the traffique of the stage -- 3. Learned tradition 1560-1580: the language of comedy and the drama of the schools -- 4. Decorum of the scene -- pt. 2. Nature and art at strife: 5. Artificial comedy and popular comedy: Shakespeare's inheritance -- 6. Character as Plot I.: Protean shapes: Shakespearean form of comedy -- 7. Character as Plot II.: The definition of comedy: Jonsonian form -- pt. 3. Triumph of art: 8. Pastime and good company: Dekker and Heywood -- 9. Anatomy of knavery: Jonson. Marston, Middleton -- 10. A set of wit well played: Day, Chapman, Fletcher -- 11. Ghost at the revels and the Golden Age restored: Jonson's masques and Shakespeare's last plays -- 12. Elizabethan comedy in the theatre of today. |
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
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English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism.
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English drama (Comedy) |
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