A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... drama was an offshoot of the liturgy , which , with its solemn staging , lent itself well to dramatic development . The germs of the drama were in the offices of the Church , in the chants alternating between the priest and the ...
... drama was an offshoot of the liturgy , which , with its solemn staging , lent itself well to dramatic development . The germs of the drama were in the offices of the Church , in the chants alternating between the priest and the ...
Page 385
... drama , namely the life and the human truth of its pictures . It was the necessity of satisfying it which determined the character of the English drama of the Renascence . Its extreme variety gave birth to the profound difference which ...
... drama , namely the life and the human truth of its pictures . It was the necessity of satisfying it which determined the character of the English drama of the Renascence . Its extreme variety gave birth to the profound difference which ...
Page 668
... Drama ( Studies in Philology , July 1921 ) ; Schelling , English Drama , 1914 ; A. H. Thorndike , Tragedy , 1928 ; idem , English Comedy , 1929 ; Ward , History of English Dramatic Literature , 1899 ; J. W. Krutch , Comedy and ...
... Drama ( Studies in Philology , July 1921 ) ; Schelling , English Drama , 1914 ; A. H. Thorndike , Tragedy , 1928 ; idem , English Comedy , 1929 ; Ward , History of English Dramatic Literature , 1899 ; J. W. Krutch , Comedy and ...
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ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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