English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals): The Development of Dramatic Speech - Hardcover

Clemen, Wolfgang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415618568 ISBN 13: 9780415618564

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

First published in English in 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy. The work offers positive standards by which to assess the development of pre-Shakespearean drama and, by tracing certain characteristics in Elizabethan tragedy which were to have a bearing on Shakespeare’s dramatic technique, helps to illuminate the foundations on which Shakespeare built his dramatic oeuvre.

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Review

`Professor Clemen’s study provides not merely judicious guidance in the study of what can be known about the works in the period he covers but a body of observations that reminds the student that there is still much to do in establishing the historical background of the dramatic development he so ably plots for us.’ - The Times Literary Supplement

`A work of elegant and exact scholarship which has already established itself as the best book on the subject and from which the study of Shakespeare will also benefit.’ – Essays in Criticism

`Both in detail and in the structural outlines of his thesis, Professor Clemen pursues and illustrates his central ideas with clarity and precision.’ – Critical Quarterly

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0415618568
• ISBN 13: 9780415618564
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304