Drama in English From the Middle Ages to the Early Twentieth Century : An Anthology of Plays with Old Spelling /

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At a time when good editions of drama in English are prohibitively expensive and online texts are unedited and lack the apparatus necessary for students to understand and contextualize the plays, this anthology affordably illustrates every significant genre of drama in the English language from the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wheatley, Christopher J., 1955- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Drama.
DRAMA > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
Drama > Collections.
Collections.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Drama of the Middle Ages
  • Noah's flood (Chester cycle)
  • Abraham and Isaac (Brome manuscript)
  • The second shepherds (Wakefield/Towneley cycle)
  • The crucifixion (York cycle)
  • Everyman
  • Drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
  • The shoemaker's holiday / Thomas Dekker
  • The Jew of Malta / Christopher Marlowe
  • Volpone / Ben Jonson
  • The Duchess of Malfy / John Webster
  • The knight of the burning pestle / Francis Beaumont
  • Drama of the restoration and early eighteenth century
  • All for love / John Dryden
  • The plain dealer / William Wycherley
  • The beaux' stratagem / George Farquhar
  • The London merchant / George Lillo
  • The beggar's opera / John Gay
  • Drama of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
  • The Shaughraun / Dion Boucicault
  • The playboy of the Western world / John Synge
  • St. Joan / Bernard Shaw.

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