A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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... tragedy and the native sort . What the native tragedy was can be told from John Pickering's Interlude of Vice containing the History of Horestes ( 1567 ) , Thomas Preston's A Lamentable Tragedy mixed full of Mirth containing the Life of ...
... tragedy and the native sort . What the native tragedy was can be told from John Pickering's Interlude of Vice containing the History of Horestes ( 1567 ) , Thomas Preston's A Lamentable Tragedy mixed full of Mirth containing the Life of ...
Page 220
... Tragedy ( 1583-4 ? ) , a stirring melodrama in blank verse , which became the pat- tern for many subsequent ' revenge ' plays . In The Spanish Tragedy Kyd pre- sented action , however violent , instead of having it merely reported on ...
... Tragedy ( 1583-4 ? ) , a stirring melodrama in blank verse , which became the pat- tern for many subsequent ' revenge ' plays . In The Spanish Tragedy Kyd pre- sented action , however violent , instead of having it merely reported on ...
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... Tragedy , the culmination of the tragedy of revenge and one of the most striking plays of the age . Tourneur is known to have been employed in foreign service , and little more is known about him . He is universally granted the ...
... Tragedy , the culmination of the tragedy of revenge and one of the most striking plays of the age . Tourneur is known to have been employed in foreign service , and little more is known about him . He is universally granted the ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD 1 The Temper of the Middle Ages | 3 |
The AngloSaxons | 5 |
Some Fundamental Facts Relating to Old English Literature | 8 |
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