English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals)

English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781136811098
ISBN-13 : 1136811095
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Book Synopsis English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals) by : Wolfgang Clemen

Download or read book English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals) written by Wolfgang Clemen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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