Book description
CONTENTS:
1. INTRODUCTORY
2. THE ORIGINS, MIRACLES, MORALITIES, INTERLUDES
3. THE BEGINNINGS OF TRAGEDY, OF THE HISTORY PLAY AND OF COMEDY; THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEATRE
4. EARLY ELIZABETHAN TRAGEDY, THOMAS KYD AND CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
5. EARLY ELIZABETHAN COMEDY AND SHAKESPEARE’S OTHER PREDECESSORS
6. SHAKESPEARE
7. SHAKESPEARE’S CONTEMPORARIES, BEN JONSON, THOMAS DEKKER, DOMESTIC DRAMA, JOHN HEYWOOD, GEORGE CHAPMAN
8. JOHN WEBSTER, BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, PHILIP MASSINGER, THOMAS MIDDLETON, WILLIAM ROWLEY, JOHN FORD, JAMES SHIRLEY
9. THE RESTORATION PERIOD
10. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
11. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
12. G. B. SHAW
13. THE BACKGROUND OF THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
14. ENGLISH DRAMA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
15. CONTEMPORARY DRAMA
