{"product_id":"specimens-of-english-dramatic-poets-who-lived-about-the-time-of-shakespeare-paperback-9781108062893","title":"Specimens of English Dramatic Poets; Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108062893","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSpecimens of English Dramatic Poets\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWho Lived about the Time of Shakespeare\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis expanded two-volume 1835 anthology brings together some of most striking passages of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCharles Lamb (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108062893, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 October 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.49 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSince its first appearance in 1808, this collection of extracts from Elizabethan and Jacobean drama has been highly acclaimed; the twentieth-century critic Edmund Blunden considered it 'the most striking anthology perhaps ever made from English literature'. In compiling the work, the critic and essayist Charles Lamb (1775–1834) aimed to achieve two goals: to illustrate the greatness of Shakespeare's often forgotten contemporaries, and to explore the way in which sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Englishmen experienced emotion. He includes only those scenes which he judges to show the best poetry and the deepest passion, adding only brief notes to let the texts speak for themselves. This reissue is of the expanded two-volume edition of 1835. Volume 1 focuses on the plays produced at the height of the Elizabethan theatre's popularity. Including extracts from Kyd, Marlowe and Jonson, among others, it remains a rich resource for literature students.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Table of reference to the extracts\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Kyd\u003cbr\u003e George Peele\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Marlowe\u003cbr\u003e Robert Tailor\u003cbr\u003e Anthony Brewer\u003cbr\u003e Authors uncertain\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Cooke\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Decker\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Decker and John Webster\u003cbr\u003e John Marston\u003cbr\u003e George Chapman\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Heywood\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Heywood and Richard Broome\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Middleton and William Rowley\u003cbr\u003e William Rowley\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Middleton\u003cbr\u003e William Rowley, Thomas Decker, John Ford \u0026amp;c.\u003cbr\u003e Cyril Tourneur\u003cbr\u003e John Webster\u003cbr\u003e John Ford\u003cbr\u003e Samuel Daniel\u003cbr\u003e Fulke Greville\u003cbr\u003e Ben Jonson\u003cbr\u003e Francis Beaumont.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005479211288,"sku":"9781108062893","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108062893i_394b0ce6-53b9-445a-ae79-61eebba1e2fc.jpg?v=1696748468","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/specimens-of-english-dramatic-poets-who-lived-about-the-time-of-shakespeare-paperback-9781108062893","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}