Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the Accession of Queen Elizabeth to the Closing of the Theaters, to Which Is Prefixed a Resume of the Earlier Drama from Its Beginnings
Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the Accession of Queen Elizabeth to the Closing of the Theaters, to Which Is Prefixed a Resume of the Earlier Drama from Its Beginnings
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...tory of Sir Thomas Wyatt, 1602, which has evidently Wy"'l6oz 1 On this play and its sources, see Simpson, School of Shak-spere, i, 1-156; the play follows. 2 For these, see Henslowe, 138, 166. suffered from the censor's excisions.1 It falls, however, below the average which its two authors, Dek-ker and Webster ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...tory of Sir Thomas Wyatt, 1602, which has evidently Wy"'l6oz 1 On this play and its sources, see Simpson, School of Shak-spere, i, 1-156; the play follows. 2 For these, see Henslowe, 138, 166. suffered from the censor's excisions.1 It falls, however, below the average which its two authors, Dek-ker and Webster, attained in most of their work. There is also Rowley's vigorous picture of life at King Henry's court as seen from below stairs, When You See Me You Know Me, 1604, and finally Shakespeare and Fletcher's Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII of both of which more below. It would be difficult to find a better illustration P1,3?5,0n, o-ueen of the journalistic function of the Elizabethan stage Elizabeth, .. 1604-05; their than that contained in the biographical chron1cle character"0 plays which followed hard upon the death of the queen. What we should now print as an obituary notice or essay was then dramatized, and furthermore staged. In the first part of Heywood's // You Know Not Me You Know Nobody (1604-05) the theme is the persecution to which the late queen was subjected when a princess by the jealousy of her sister, Queen Mary, and the machinations of Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, commonly represented as the source of all evils in these plays. In the second part, Heywood proves unequal to a splendid opportunity, the coming of the Armada, and ekes out his play with bald epic narrative. The story of Gresham's founding of the Royal Exchange and the escapades of an imaginary scapegrace, nephew of that great financier, themes with which 'he enlivened his unhistorical narrative, were doubtless nearer the hearts of the money-getting citizens than the historic glories of their dead sovereign. A rival play of Dekker's sought to probe...
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