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Author Shepherd, Simon.

Title English drama : a cultural history / Simon Shepherd and Peter Womack
Published Oxford, Eng. ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1996

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Description xi, 412 pages ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Medieval Drama -- 2. The Beginning of the Story of Drama -- 3. Renaissance Drama -- 4. The Image of Elizabethan Drama -- 5. Restoration Comedy -- 6. Bawdy, Manners and the English National Character --7. Melodrama -- 8. The Unacceptable Face of Theatre --9. Naturalism -- 10. Playing It Straight: Proper Drama -- 11. Post-war Theatre and the State -- 12. Drama in the Age of Television -- Chronological List of Plays by Performance Date
Summary The authors here provide a comprehensive account of the cultural history of English drama. They draw upon new empirical research and the latest theoretical models to show how the character of a given theatrical age contains many contradictions
Analysis English drama History
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject English drama -- History and criticism.
Literature and history -- England -- History.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
Theater and society -- England -- History.
Author Womack, Peter, 1952-
LC no. 95032852
ISBN 0631168125
0631199381 (alk. paper)