Fletcher, Beaumont & Company, Entertainers to the Jacobean GentryStudies the tragicomedies of Fletcher and Beaumont to fill a gap in the history of the repudiations of the Elizabeth-Stuart playwrights and thus have an additional usefulness for readers of Jacobean drama. |
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... look at them as the practical men of the theatre that they were rather than as great dramatic poets - even if that led to understressing their indubitable poetic gifts . These opinions and convictions have only been strengthened during ...
... look at them as the practical men of the theatre that they were rather than as great dramatic poets - even if that led to understressing their indubitable poetic gifts . These opinions and convictions have only been strengthened during ...
Page 65
... look like one round diverse - coloured fruit . " 103 Their serious plays " are complete hybrids . upon any rules , Greek , Roman , or Gothic . " Moreover , " the comic scenes are rarely so interfused amidst the tragic as • to produce a ...
... look like one round diverse - coloured fruit . " 103 Their serious plays " are complete hybrids . upon any rules , Greek , Roman , or Gothic . " Moreover , " the comic scenes are rarely so interfused amidst the tragic as • to produce a ...
Page 248
... look upon their an- cestors as rude barbarians , -a view that gained strength in the Augustan age . As a matter of course , the new generations scorned the Elizabethan playhouses and their arrangements as outmoded , turned their backs ...
... look upon their an- cestors as rude barbarians , -a view that gained strength in the Augustan age . As a matter of course , the new generations scorned the Elizabethan playhouses and their arrangements as outmoded , turned their backs ...
Contents
Decline of a Reputation | 3 |
REINTERPRETATION | 129 |
The Plays on the Stage Since 1700 | 243 |
Copyright | |
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