English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals)
Author | : Wolfgang Clemen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781136811098 |
ISBN-13 | : 1136811095 |
Rating | : 4/5 (095 Downloads) |
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.