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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826927103321

Autore

Clemen Wolfgang

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2011

ISBN

1-136-81109-5

1-283-59151-0

9786613903969

1-136-81110-9

0-203-82883-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (504 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Disciplina

822.05120903

Soggetti

English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism

English drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Methuen, 1961.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fornt Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; TRANSLATOR'S NOTE; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Introduction; PART ONE; 2 The Set Speech in Renaissance Drama and Contemporary Theory; 3 The Basic Types of Dramatic Set Speech; 4 Gorboduc; PART TWO; 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; PART THREE; 15 The Pre-Shakespearian Dramatic Lament

16 ConclusionSelect Bibliography; Index of Authors and Subjects; Index of Plays

Sommario/riassunto

First published in English in 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 Elizabethan tragedy which were to have a



bearing on Shakespeare's dramatic technique, helps to illuminate the foundations on which Shakespeare built his dramatic oeuvre.