The Medieval Heritage of Elizabethan Tragedy / Willard Farnham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farnham, Willard, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (524 p.) : 1 frontisp.

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1936.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Preface

I. Greco-Roman Surrender of the World

II. Gothic Espousal and Contempt of the World

III. Falls of Princes: Boccaccio

IV. Falls of Princes: Chaucer and Lydgate

V. Tragedy and the English Moral Play: Fifteenth Century

VI. Tragedy and the English Moral Play: Sixteenth Century

VII. The Mirror for Magistrates

VIII. The Progeny of the Mirror

IX. The Establishment of Tragedy upon the Elizabethan Stage

X. The Establishment of Tragedy upon the Elizabethan Stage (Continued)

XI. Conclusion

General Bibliographical Note

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520345041

0520345045

OCLC:

1198930991