Ancient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage, 1500-1700 /

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Unlike the contrast between the sacred and the taboo, the opposition of "comic" and "tragic" is not a way of categorizing experience that we find in cultures all over the world or even at different periods in Western civilization. Though medieval writers and readers distinguished...

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Main Author: Smith, Bruce R., 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1988.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tragedy.
Theater.
Comedy.
Classical drama > Appreciation.
Civilization > Roman influences.
Civilization > Greek influences.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
POETRY > General.
tragedies.
Comedie.
Tragedie.
Theâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Theâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Theâtre ancien > Appreciation > Angleterre.
Theater > England > History > 17th century.
Theater > England > History > 16th century.
Classical drama > Appreciation > England.
Great Britain.
England.
Great Britain > Civilization > Roman influences.
Great Britain > Civilization > Greek influences.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PROLOGUE
  • I. Critical Contexts
  • II. Spatial Contexts
  • III. Social Contexts
  • IV. Comedy
  • V. Tragedy
  • EPILOGUE
  • INDEX.

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