English Drama: Forms and Development
English Drama: Forms and Development
Essays in Honour of Murial Clara Bradbrook
M. Axton
R. Williams
R. Williams
April 2010
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These ten original essays on English drama from Tudor times onwards were first published in 1977. Each is written by a former member of the Cambridge English Faculty. Each author has an individual approach and makes a fresh contribution to the study of dramatic form seen in a changing historical setting. There are essays on genres, on individual playwrights and on social conditions affecting the development of the drama. Together, the essays make a valuable contribution to the study of drama.
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April 2010Paperback
9780521142557
276 pages
229 × 152 × 16 mm
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Table of Contents
- 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.
