Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, Volume 2: Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare

Since its first appearance in 1808, this collection of extracts from Elizabethan and Jacobean drama has been highly acclaimed; the twentieth-century critic Edmund Blunden considered it 'the most striking anthology perhaps ever made from English literature'. In compiling the work, the criti...

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Weitere Verfasser: Lamb, Charles 1775-1834 (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1808
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge library collection. Literary studies
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Zusammenfassung:Since its first appearance in 1808, this collection of extracts from Elizabethan and Jacobean drama has been highly acclaimed; the twentieth-century critic Edmund Blunden considered it 'the most striking anthology perhaps ever made from English literature'. In compiling the work, the critic and essayist Charles Lamb (1775–1834) aimed to achieve two goals: to illustrate the greatness of Shakespeare's often forgotten contemporaries, and to explore the way in which sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Englishmen experienced emotion. He includes only those scenes which he judges to show the best poetry and the deepest passion, adding only brief notes to let the texts speak for themselves. This reissue is of the expanded two-volume edition of 1835. Volume 2 focuses on plays produced in the seventeenth century. Including extracts from Massinger, Fletcher and Shirley, among others, it remains a rich resource for literature students
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 377 pages)
ISBN:9781139600033
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139600033

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