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English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals): The Development of Dramatic Speech
Author(s): Wolfgang Clemen (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 Mar. 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415618568
- ISBN-13: 9780415618564
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
`Professor Clemen’s study provides not merely judicious guidance in the study of what can be known about the works in the period he covers but a body of observations that reminds the student that there is still much to do in establishing the historical background of the dramatic development he so ably plots for us.’ – The Times Literary Supplement
`A work of elegant and exact scholarship which has already established itself as the best book on the subject and from which the study of Shakespeare will also benefit.’ – Essays in Criticism
`Both in detail and in the structural outlines of his thesis, Professor Clemen pursues and illustrates his central ideas with clarity and precision.’ – Critical Quarterly
