| Description |
xiv, 194 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Part 1: Historical drama and historical reality -- Levels of reality -- Apprehending reality -- Part II: History and the structure of dramatic action -- Conspiracy plays -- Tyrant and martyr plays -- Part 3: History of magnification -- History and heroism -- Forms of magnification -- History as tragedy -- History as ceremony -- History as panaroma -- Part 4: The historical world as imaginative place -- History as middle ground -- Boundaries of the historical world -- The public and the private -- Part 5: Historical drama as historical thought -- Drama and historical process -- History and hierarchy -- Drama as growth -- History from below -- Drama and power |
| Analysis |
Historical drama History and criticism |
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Historical plays to 1960 related to historical events |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p.xiv. _ Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Historical drama.
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Historical drama -- History and criticism.
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Historical drama.
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| LC no. |
74011630 |
| ISBN |
0226482391 |
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