Specimens of English Dramatic Poets
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets
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USDSince its first appearance in 1808, this collection of extracts from Elizabethan and Jacobean drama has been highly acclaimed; the twentieth-century critic Edmund Blunden considered it 'the most striking anthology perhaps ever made from English literature'. In compiling the work, the critic and essayist Charles Lamb (1775–1834) aimed to achieve two goals: to illustrate the greatness of Shakespeare's often forgotten contemporaries, and to explore the way in which sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Englishmen experienced emotion. He includes only those scenes which he judges to show the best poetry and the deepest passion, adding only brief notes to let the texts speak for themselves. This reissue is of the expanded two-volume edition of 1835. Volume 1 focuses on the plays produced at the height of the Elizabethan theatre's popularity. Including extracts from Kyd, Marlowe and Jonson, among others, it remains a rich resource for literature students.
Product details
October 2013Paperback
9781108062893
384 pages
216 × 140 × 22 mm
0.49kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Table of reference to the extracts
- Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton
- Thomas Kyd
- George Peele
- Christopher Marlowe
- Robert Tailor
- Anthony Brewer
- Authors uncertain
- Joseph Cooke
- Thomas Decker
- Thomas Decker and John Webster
- John Marston
- George Chapman
- Thomas Heywood
- Thomas Heywood and Richard Broome
- Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
- William Rowley
- Thomas Middleton
- William Rowley, Thomas Decker, John Ford &c.
- Cyril Tourneur
- John Webster
- John Ford
- Samuel Daniel
- Fulke Greville
- Ben Jonson
- Francis Beaumont.
