The Development of Dramatic Art

First Edition. Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. 6 1/4" x 9." 679 pages, complete. Two additional pages in back advertise other books. Bibliography and Index in back. Former owner's signature in black ink on front free endpaper: "Edward A. Noyes, 103 Blair Hall, Princeton, N.J." Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning, occasional small marks, the former owner's signature, and slight wear to extremities. Covers are clean and intact but have cracking along front and back inner hinges, slight fading along spine, some fading to spinal lettering, slight bumping to corners and head and tail of spine, and a faint mark on back. Binding is still strong and holding. A Very Good copy. This is a monograph about the history of drama in different European countries and Russia. Authored by Donald Clive Stuart (1881-1943), an American playwright, scholar, and professor. Stuart served as Princeton University's first Professor of Dramatic Art. Chapter titles: "The Origin of Greek Tragedy; Aeschylus," "Sophocles," "Euripides," "The Origin of Greek Comedy; Aristophanes; Menander," "Latin Comedy," "The Original of Medieval Drama; French Medieval Drama," "English Medieval Drama; Kyd; Marlowe; Shakespeare," "Seneca," "Italian Tragedy of the Renaissance," "Italian Comedy of the Renaissance; The Pastoral," "French Comedy of the Renaissance and the Seventeenth Century," "French Tragedy of the Renaissance; Hardy," "French Tragedy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," "Tearful Comedy; Domestic Drama," "German Drama of the Eighteenth Century," "French Melodrama; French Romantic Drama," "French Realistic Drama; The Problem Play," "Naturalistic Drama," "German Fate-Tragedy; Hebbel; Ibsen," "Russian Drama," "Synthetic Dramatic Art; The New Stagecraft," and "Symbolism; Expressionism.".…