Book description
CONTENTS:
PART 1 – ELIZABETHAN TRAGEDY
1. The Elizabethan Tragic World
2. Shakespearean Tragedy
3. Energy versus Control: Marlowe
4. The Morality of Revenge: Kyd and Marlowe
PART 2 – JACOBEAN TRAGEDY
5. The Morality of Revenge: Tourneur’s Critics
6. The Morality of Revenge: The Revenger’s Tragedy
7. Websterian Tragedy: The Duchess of Malfi
8. Naturalistic Comedy and Tragedy: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Women Beware Women
9. Poetic Naturalism: The Changeling
PART 3 – THE DECADENCE
10. Decadence and Tragi-comedy: Marston and Webster
11. Jacobean Compromise: Beaumont and Fletcher’s Tragi-comedy
12. Decadence: The Hollowness of Chapman and Ford
CONCLUSION: DRAMA AND POETRY
