Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage: Collected Studies in Mediaeval, Tudor and Shakespearean Drama1. The Mediaval Heritage of Shakespearean Drama: i. Drama and Religion in the Middle Ages -- ii. Dramatic Qualities of the English Morality Play and Moral Interlude -- iii. Genesis and the Tragic hero: Marlowe to Webster 2. Reformation and Renaissance : iv. Neo-classical Drama in England -- v. Shakespeare's 'Small Latine and Less Greeke' --vi. The Stuart Mask 3. Stages and Stage Directions: vii. Notes on the Staging of Marlowe's Plays -- viii. Shakespeare's Stage -- ix. Notes on Inigio Jones design for the Cockpit-in-Court. 4. Studies in Shakespeare: x. Shakespeare's King Richard II and Marlowe's King Edward II -- xi. A Midsummer Night's Dream: the Setting and the Text -- xii. Hamlet (i) Notes for an actor in the title role -- (ii) Uncle-father and Aunt-mother -- (iii) The Lord Chamberlain. Xiii. Macbeth (i) Hell-castle and its Door-Keeper (ii) Out-heroding Herod xiv. Coriolanus: Shakespeare's Tragedy in Rehearsal and Performance xv. The Winter's Tale: A Comedy with Deaths. |
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Drama and Religion in the Middle Ages | 3 |
Dramatic Qualities of the English Morality | 19 |
Webster | 42 |
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