Specimens of English Dramatic Poets - Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare

Klappentext This expanded two-volume 1835 anthology brings together some of most striking passages of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1808, this anthology of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama compiled by Charles Lamb (1775–1834) was highly acclaimed. Reissued here is the expanded two-volume edition of 1835. Volume 1 includes extracts from such theatrical hits as Tamburlaine and Volpone, alongside little-known gems by Greville, Peele and Brewer. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Table of reference to the extracts; Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton; Thomas Kyd; George Peele; Christopher Marlowe; Robert Tailor; Anthony Brewer; Authors uncertain; Joseph Cooke; Thomas Decker; Thomas Decker and John Webster; John Marston; George Chapman; Thomas Heywood; Thomas Heywood and Richard Broome; Thomas Middleton and William Rowley; William Rowley; Thomas Middleton; William Rowley, Thomas Decker, John Ford &c.; Cyril Tourneur; John Webster; John Ford; Samuel Daniel; Fulke Greville; Ben Jonson; Francis Beaumont.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Lamb
• Assisted by: Charles Lamb (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9781108062893
• ISBN: 978-1-108-06289-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama; Specimens of English Dramatic Poets 2 Volume Set
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > History; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literary studies: poetry and poets