TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nicoll,Allardyce
TI  - British drama
AV  - PR625 .N5 1963
U1  - 822/.009 N645b  
PY  - 1963///, c1962]
CY  - New York, Delhi
PB  - Barnes & Noble, Doaba House
KW  - English drama
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theater
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
N1  - I. The beginnings to Shakespeare: Introductory: the classical heritage -- The growth of native drama: Tropes and liturgical plays -- Mysteries and miracles -- The development of professional drama: moralities and interludes -- Comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy -- II. Elizabethan drama: The theatres -- Shakespeare's immediate forerunners -- The arrival of Shakespeare -- The final achievements of Elizabethan drama -- III. The Jacobean and Caroline drama: Audiences and theatres -- Satirical and citizen comedy -- The flourishing of tragedy -- The cult of tragicomedy and social comedy -- Cavalier spectators and their tastes -- IV. Restoration drama: Drama under the Puritans -- The restoration theatre -- Love and honour drama -- The return to Shakespeare -- Opera and spectacle -- Comedies of humours and of intrigue -- The comedy of manners -- V. Drama in the eighteenth century: The changing playhouse world -- Pseudo-classic and pathetic tragedy -- The ballad-opera and pantomime -- The growth of sentimentalism -- Comedy's temporary revival -- The domestic drama -- VI. Drama in the nineteenth century: The main tendencies of the time -- The poetic plays -- Melodramas, farces, and extravaganzas -- The dramatic revival -- VII. Drama in the twentieth century: Conflicting trends -- The realistic social drama -- The comic, the fantastic, and the historical -- The poetic play -- The latest phase; DELL; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
UR  - http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/350438.html
ER  -