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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets 2 Volume Set
Edited By Charles La
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Description for Specimens of English Dramatic Poets 2 Volume Set
paperback. This expanded two-volume 1835 anthology brings together some of the most striking passages of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Editor(s): Lamb, Charles. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama. Num Pages: 774 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1010.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge Library Collection United Kingdom
Number of pages
774
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
776
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781108062916
SKU
V9781108062916
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