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English Domestic Or, Homiletic Tragedy 1575 to 1642 : Being an Account of the Development of the Tragedy of the Common Man Showing Its Great Dependence on Religious Morality, Illustrated With Striking Examples of the Interposition of Providence for the Amendment of Men'S Manners / Henry Hitch Adams.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature ; 159Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1943]Copyright date: ©1943Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231910125
  • 9780231881616
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Critical Backgrounds -- II. Popular Theology -- III. Nondramatic Literature -- IV. Morality Plays -- V. Plays from Legend and History -- VI. Sixteenth-Century Murder Plays -- VII. Seventeenth-Century Murder Plays -- VIII. Thomas Heywood's "A Woman Killed with Kindness" -- IX. The Decline of Domestic Tragedies -- X. Conclusion -- Appendix A. Lost Domestic Tragedies -- Appendix B. Heywood and Brome's "The Late Lancashire Witches" -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Interprets Elizabethan domestic tragedies as they might have appeared to the audiences who saw them in the public theaters by supplying the religious and moral background the average playgoer of the time would possess, then evaluates them in relation to other plays of the period and as a part of the history of drama.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Critical Backgrounds -- II. Popular Theology -- III. Nondramatic Literature -- IV. Morality Plays -- V. Plays from Legend and History -- VI. Sixteenth-Century Murder Plays -- VII. Seventeenth-Century Murder Plays -- VIII. Thomas Heywood's "A Woman Killed with Kindness" -- IX. The Decline of Domestic Tragedies -- X. Conclusion -- Appendix A. Lost Domestic Tragedies -- Appendix B. Heywood and Brome's "The Late Lancashire Witches" -- Bibliography -- Index

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Interprets Elizabethan domestic tragedies as they might have appeared to the audiences who saw them in the public theaters by supplying the religious and moral background the average playgoer of the time would possess, then evaluates them in relation to other plays of the period and as a part of the history of drama.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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