British drama / [electronic resource] Allardyce Nicoll.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Barnes & Noble, [1963, c1962]Edition: 5th ed. rev. and resetDescription: 365 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: British drama.DDC classification:- 822/.009
- PR625 .N5 1963
- Also issued online.
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PR6073.H399 B6 1984 Bodyline : the novel / | PR6073.H653 C43 1994 Charmed circle / | PR6073.H653 C58 1996 A clear blue sky / | PR625 .N5 1963 British drama / | PR830.C513 P47 1997 A child's delight / | PR861 .B73 1985 British novelists, 1890-1929 : modernists / | PR8835 .O3 1960 A book of Ireland; |
I. The beginnings to Shakespeare: Introductory: the classical heritage -- The growth of native drama: Tropes and liturgical plays -- Mysteries and miracles -- The development of professional drama: moralities and interludes -- Comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy -- II. Elizabethan drama: The theatres -- Shakespeare's immediate forerunners -- The arrival of Shakespeare -- The final achievements of Elizabethan drama -- III. The Jacobean and Caroline drama: Audiences and theatres -- Satirical and citizen comedy -- The flourishing of tragedy -- The cult of tragicomedy and social comedy -- Cavalier spectators and their tastes -- IV. Restoration drama: Drama under the Puritans -- The restoration theatre -- Love and honour drama -- The return to Shakespeare -- Opera and spectacle -- Comedies of humours and of intrigue -- The comedy of manners -- V. Drama in the eighteenth century: The changing playhouse world -- Pseudo-classic and pathetic tragedy -- The ballad-opera and pantomime -- The growth of sentimentalism -- Comedy's temporary revival -- The domestic drama -- VI. Drama in the nineteenth century: The main tendencies of the time -- The poetic plays -- Melodramas, farces, and extravaganzas -- The dramatic revival -- VII. Drama in the twentieth century: Conflicting trends -- The realistic social drama -- The comic, the fantastic, and the historical -- The poetic play -- The latest phase.
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