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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |45 pages
Part One
chapter |10 pages
Introduction
chapter |23 pages
The Set Speech in Renaissance Drama and Contemporary Theory
chapter |12 pages
The Basic Types of Dramatic Set Speech
part |155 pages
Part Two
part |82 pages
Part Three