ABSTRACT

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.

part |45 pages

Part One

part |155 pages

Part Two

chapter |19 pages

Gorboduc

chapter |17 pages

English Classical Plays

Gismond of Salerne. The Misfortunes of Arthur

chapter |8 pages

Locrine

chapter |13 pages

Kyd

chapter |17 pages

Marlowe: I

Tamburlaine

chapter |11 pages

Imitations of Marlowe's Tamburlaine

Selimus and The Wounds of Civil War

chapter |22 pages

Marlowe: II

The Jew of Malta

chapter |15 pages

Peele

chapter |14 pages

Greene

part |82 pages

Part Three