English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals): The Development of Dramatic Speech

By Wolfgang Clemen

Book Overview

First published in English in 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy. The work offers positive standards by which to assess the development of pre-Shakespearean drama and, by tracing certain characteristics in Elizabethan tragedy which were to have a bearing on Shakespeare's dramatic technique, helps to illuminate the foundations on which Shakespeare built his dramatic oeuvre.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415618568
• ISBN13: 9780415618564
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"