Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama"A critical inquiry into the condition of the English drama" -- Preface. |
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... - V . John . Still - Was He the Author of ' Gammer Gurton's Needle ' ? - Farcical Character of this Piece - Diccon the Bedlam . - VI . Reasons for the Early Development of Comedy 148 · CHAPTER VI THE RISE OF TRAGEDY I. Classical Influence.
... - V . John . Still - Was He the Author of ' Gammer Gurton's Needle ' ? - Farcical Character of this Piece - Diccon the Bedlam . - VI . Reasons for the Early Development of Comedy 148 · CHAPTER VI THE RISE OF TRAGEDY I. Classical Influence.
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... Classical Attempt -- What it effected for English Tragedy PAGE • 170 CHAPTER VII TRIUMPH OF THE ROMANTIC DRAMA I. Fifty - two Plays at Court - Analysis of their Subjects - The Court follows the Taste of the People - The Damon and ...
... Classical Attempt -- What it effected for English Tragedy PAGE • 170 CHAPTER VII TRIUMPH OF THE ROMANTIC DRAMA I. Fifty - two Plays at Court - Analysis of their Subjects - The Court follows the Taste of the People - The Damon and ...
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... Classical Metrical Systems- Quantity and Accent The Licentiate Iambic - Gascoigne's Critique Marlowe's Innovations in Blank Verse - Pause- Emphasis - Rhetoric a Key to good Blank Verse - The Variety of Marlowe's Metre . - IV . His ...
... Classical Metrical Systems- Quantity and Accent The Licentiate Iambic - Gascoigne's Critique Marlowe's Innovations in Blank Verse - Pause- Emphasis - Rhetoric a Key to good Blank Verse - The Variety of Marlowe's Metre . - IV . His ...
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... classical learning , in the definition of English nationality against the powers of Spain and Rome , in the contact with Italian culture . England had not fashioned her own forms of art before the literatures of other and widely ...
... classical learning , in the definition of English nationality against the powers of Spain and Rome , in the contact with Italian culture . England had not fashioned her own forms of art before the literatures of other and widely ...
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... classical experiments of Sackville and Norton , Hughes , Gascoigne , Edwards , and their satellites , the euphu- istic phantasies of Lyly , the melodramas of Kyd , Greene , and Peele , together with the first rude history - plays and ...
... classical experiments of Sackville and Norton , Hughes , Gascoigne , Edwards , and their satellites , the euphu- istic phantasies of Lyly , the melodramas of Kyd , Greene , and Peele , together with the first rude history - plays and ...
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