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Author Pavel, Thomas G., 1941-

Title The poetics of plot : the case of English Renaissance drama / Thomas G. Pavel ; foreword by Wlad Godzich
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1985

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 168 pages)
Series Theory and history of literature ; v. 18
Theory and history of literature ; v. 18.
Contents Foreword; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Plot-Grammar: Marlowe's Tamburlaine I; Chapter Three: Semantic Considerations: Narrative Domains; Chapter Four: Marlowe -- An Exercise in Inconstancy; Chapter Five: Two Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy and Arden of Feversham; Chapter Six: King Lear; Chapter Seven: Move-Grammars and Styles of Plot; Appendix: A Few Considerations on the Formalism of Move-Grammars; Notes; References; Index
Summary A unique methodology for plot analysis focusing on an important body of English Renaissance dramas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
Poetics -- History -- 16th century
Poetics -- History -- 17th century
Renaissance -- England
DRAMA -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English drama.
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan.
English drama (Tragedy)
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
Poetics.
Renaissance.
England.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816682157
0816682151