English Dramatic Form: A History of Its Development.
- Author / Editor
- Bradbrook, M. C.
English Dramatic Form: A History of Its Development.
- Published
- London: Chatto & Windus, 1965.
- Physical Description
- 205 pp.
- Description
- Surveys the history and development of English drama from the Renaissance to the modern period, emphasizing "the nature and effects" of plays and performance. Includes a chapter entitled "The Dream Vision from Chaucer to Shakespeare" (pp. 61-79), which discusses how Chaucer separated "'performance' of poetry from ordinary living" in BD, HF, PF and LGWP. Also includes a section (pp. 91-94) on parallels between TC and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls
Legend of Good Women
Troilus and Criseyde