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100	1		_aNicoll, Allardyce, _d1894-1976.
245	1	0	_aBritish drama / _h[electronic resource] _cAllardyce Nicoll.
250			_a5th ed. rev. and reset.
260			_aNew York : _bBarnes & Noble, _c[1963, c1962]
300			_a365 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
505	0		_aI. 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.
530			_aAlso issued online.
650		0	_aEnglish drama _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aTheater _zGreat Britain _xHistory.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aNicoll, Allardyce, 1894-1976. _tBritish drama. _b5th ed. rev. and reset. _dNew York : Barnes & Noble, [1963, c1962] _w(OCoLC)570398260
856	4	1	_uhttp://www.archive.org/details/britishdrama00nico _zFree eBook from the Internet Archive
856	4	2	_uhttp://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL21460312M _zAdditional information and access via Open Library
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