Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived About The Time Of Shakespeare: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama) - Softcover

Lamb, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110806289X ISBN 13: 9781108062893

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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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Book Description

Originally published in 1808, this anthology of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama compiled by Charles Lamb (1775–1834) was highly acclaimed. Reissued here is the expanded two-volume edition of 1835. Volume 1 includes extracts from such theatrical hits as Tamburlaine and Volpone, alongside little-known gems by Greville, Peele and Brewer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110806289X
• ISBN 13: 9781108062893
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384