English Drama: Forms and Development
Essays in Honour of Murial Clara Bradbrook

Ten original essays on English drama from Tudor times onwards examines different aspects on the development of this art form.

M. Axton (Author), R. Williams (Author)

9780521142557, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 8 April 2010

276 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.41 kg

These ten original essays on English drama from Tudor times onwards were first published in 1977. Each is written by a former member of the Cambridge English Faculty. Each author has an individual approach and makes a fresh contribution to the study of dramatic form seen in a changing historical setting. 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.

Introduction 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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: plays & playwrights [DSG]