1st Edition

Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage Collected Studies in Mediaeval, Tudor and Shakespearean Drama

By Glynne Wickham Copyright 1969
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage shows that the drama of Elizabethan and Jacobean England is deeply indebted to the religious drama of the Middle Ages and represents a climax, in secular guise, to mediaeval experiment and achievement rather than a new beginning. This is fully examined in terms of dramatic literature as well as in terms of theatres, stages and production conventions. The plays... Read more
1. The Mediaeval Heritage of Shakespearean Drama 2. Reformation and Renaissance 3. Stages and Stage Directions 4. Studies in Shakespeare

Biography

Glynne Wickham