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 2 includes extracts by Fletcher and Massinger, alongside scenes from a host of seventeenth-century plays by lesser-known authors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of reference to the extracts; Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher; John Fletcher; Philip Massinger; Philip Massinger and Thomas Decker; Philip Massinger and Nathaniel Field; Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, and William Rowley; George Chapman and James Shirley; James Shirley; Extracts from the Garrick plays.

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: 9781108062909
• ISBN: 978-1-108-06290-9
• No. of pages: 392
• 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