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British drama

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicoll, Allardyce
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Barnes & Noble [1963, c1962]
Edition:5th ed
Subjects:
English drama > History and criticism.
English Literature
Theater > Great Britain > History.
Table of Contents:
  • I. The beginnings to Shakespeare: Introductory: the classical heritage
  • The growth of native drama: Tropes and liturgical plays
  • Mysteries and miracles
  • The development of professional drama: moralities and interludes
  • Comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy
  • II. Elizabethan drama: The theatres
  • Shakespeare's immediate forerunners
  • The arrival of Shakespeare
  • The final achievements of Elizabethan drama
  • III. The Jacobean and Caroline drama: Audiences and theatres
  • Satirical and citizen comedy
  • The flourishing of tragedy
  • The cult of tragicomedy and social comedy
  • Cavalier spectators and their tastes
  • IV. Restoration drama: Drama under the Puritans
  • The restoration theatre
  • Love and honour drama
  • The return to Shakespeare
  • Opera and spectacle
  • Comedies of humours and of intrigue
  • The comedy of manners
  • V. Drama in the eighteenth century: The changing playhouse world
  • Pseudo-classic and pathetic tragedy
  • The ballad-opera and pantomime
  • The growth of sentimentalism
  • Comedy's temporary revival
  • The domestic drama
  • VI. Drama in the nineteenth century: The main tendencies of the time
  • The poetic plays
  • Melodramas, farces, and extravaganzas
  • The dramatic revival
  • VII. Drama in the twentieth century: Conflicting trends
  • The realistic social drama
  • The comic, the fantastic, and the historical
  • The poetic play
  • The latest phase.

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