A short history of english drama
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2017
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Penguin book (1948)
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Introduction, The origins, miracles, moralities, interludes, The beginnings of tragedy of the history play and of comedy, the development of the theatre, Early Elizabethan tragedy. Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe, Early Elizabethan comedy and Shakespare's other predeccessors, Shakespare, Shakesphere's contemporaries, Ben Johnson, Thomas Dekker. Domestic drama. John Heywood, George Chapman, John Webster. Beaumont and Fletcher. Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, John Ford, James Shirley, The restoration period, The Eighteenth century, The Nineteenth century, G. B. Shaw, English drama in the Twentieth century