Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 2C. Knight & Company, 1845 - English language |
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... Tragedy of Gorboduc .-- Blank Verse Other early Dramas • Second Stage of the Regular Drama : Peele ; Greene . Marlow Lyly - Kyd - Lodge • Earlier Elizabethan Prose - Lyly - Sidney - Spenser -Nash - Harvey English Hexameter Verse Edmund ...
... Tragedy of Gorboduc .-- Blank Verse Other early Dramas • Second Stage of the Regular Drama : Peele ; Greene . Marlow Lyly - Kyd - Lodge • Earlier Elizabethan Prose - Lyly - Sidney - Spenser -Nash - Harvey English Hexameter Verse Edmund ...
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... tragedy and comedy . Both moral - plays , however , and even the more ancient miracle - plays , continued to be occasionally performed down to the very end of the sixteenth century . One of the last dramatic representations at which ...
... tragedy and comedy . Both moral - plays , however , and even the more ancient miracle - plays , continued to be occasionally performed down to the very end of the sixteenth century . One of the last dramatic representations at which ...
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... tragedy and comedy . " John Heywood's dramatic productions , " he says , " almost form a class by themselves : they are neither miracle - plays nor moral - plays , but what may be properly and strictly called interludes , a species of ...
... tragedy and comedy . " John Heywood's dramatic productions , " he says , " almost form a class by themselves : they are neither miracle - plays nor moral - plays , but what may be properly and strictly called interludes , a species of ...
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... tragedy or comedy from the mere moral . Heywood's interludes , however , of which there are two or three more of the same descrip- tion with this ( besides others partaking more of the alle- gorical character ) , are all only single ...
... tragedy or comedy from the mere moral . Heywood's interludes , however , of which there are two or three more of the same descrip- tion with this ( besides others partaking more of the alle- gorical character ) , are all only single ...
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... of the old alle- gorical representations ; that , namely , which was long distinguished from both comedy and tragedy by the naine of History ; or Chronicle History , consisting , to 28 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
... of the old alle- gorical representations ; that , namely , which was long distinguished from both comedy and tragedy by the naine of History ; or Chronicle History , consisting , to 28 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
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