
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets
Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare
Charles Lamb(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 31. October 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-108-06289-3 (ISBN)
Description
Since its first appearance in 1808, this collection of extracts from Elizabethan and Jacobean drama has been highly acclaimed; the twentieth-century critic Edmund Blunden considered it 'the most striking anthology perhaps ever made from English literature'. In compiling the work, the critic and essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834) aimed to achieve two goals: to illustrate the greatness of Shakespeare's often forgotten contemporaries, and to explore the way in which sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Englishmen experienced emotion. He includes only those scenes which he judges to show the best poetry and the deepest passion, adding only brief notes to let the texts speak for themselves. This reissue is of the expanded two-volume edition of 1835. Volume 1 focuses on the plays produced at the height of the Elizabethan theatre's popularity. Including extracts from Kyd, Marlowe and Jonson, among others, it remains a rich resource for literature students.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-06289-3 (9781108062893)
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Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare
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Content
Preface; Table of reference to the extracts; Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton; Thomas Kyd; George Peele; Christopher Marlowe; Robert Tailor; Anthony Brewer; Authors uncertain; Joseph Cooke; Thomas Decker; Thomas Decker and John Webster; John Marston; George Chapman; Thomas Heywood; Thomas Heywood and Richard Broome; Thomas Middleton and William Rowley; William Rowley; Thomas Middleton; William Rowley, Thomas Decker, John Ford &c.; Cyril Tourneur; John Webster; John Ford; Samuel Daniel; Fulke Greville; Ben Jonson; Francis Beaumont.