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Book SynopsisThese ten original essays on English drama from Tudor times onwards were first published in 1977. There are essays on genres, on individual playwrights and on social conditions affecting the development of the drama. Together, the essays make a valuable contribution to the study of drama.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Raymond Williams; 1. Folk play in Tudor interludes Richard Axton; 2. The Tudor mask and Elizabethan court drama Marie Axton; 3. Comic form in Ben Jonson: Volpone and the philosopher's stone Leo Salingar; 4. He that plays the king: Ford's Perkin Warbeck and the Stuart history play Anne Barton; 5. Medicinable tragedy: the structure of Samson Agonistes and seventeenth-century psychopathology Mary Ann Radzinowicz; 6. Exotick but rational entertainments: the english dramatick operas Richard Luckett; 7. The significance of Gay's drama Howard Erskine-Hill; 8. 'Coming Wonders': uses of theatre in the Victorian novel Gillian Beer; 9. Waiting for Prospero John Northam; 10. Social environment and theatrical environment: the case of English naturalism Raymond Williams; Notes; Appendix: The books and essays on Muriel C. Bradbrook and a selection of her book reviews Patricia Rignold; Index of plays, operas and entertainments; General index.
