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Shakespeare's Predecessors in the English Drama

Shakespeare's Predecessors in the English Drama

Symonds, John Addington

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ISBN10: 1150121998
ISBN13: 9781150121999
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.40 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1904. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV MAELOWE The Life of Marlowe--Catalogue of hia Works.--II. The Father of English Dramatic Poetry--He Fixes the Romantic Type--Adopts the Popular Dramatic Form, the Blank Verse Metre of the Scholars --He Transfigures both Form and Metre--His Consciousness of his Vocation.--III. The History of Blank Verse in England--Italian Precedent--Marlowe's Predecessors--Modern and Classical Metrical Systems--Quantity and Accent--The Licentiate Iambic--Gascoigne's Critique--Marlowe's Innovations in Blank Verse--Pause--Emphasis --Rhetoric a Key to good Blank Verse--The Variety of Marlowe's Metre.--IV. His Transfiguration of Tragedy--The Immediate Effect of his Improvements--He marks an Epoch in the Drama.--V. Colossal Scale of Marlowe's Works--Dramatisation of Ideals--Defect of Humour--No Female Characters.--VI. Marlowe's Leading Motive--The Impossible Amour--The Love of the Impossible portrayed in the Guise--In Tamburlaine--In Faustus--In Mortimer-- Impossible Beauty--What would Marlowe have made of 'Tannhauser ' ?--Barabas--The Apotheosis of Avarice.--VII. The Poet and Dramatist inseparable in Marlowe--Character of Tamburlaine. --VIII. The German Faustiad--Its Northern Character--Psychological Analysis in 'Doctor Faustus '--The Teutonic Sceptic--Forbidden Knowledge and Power--Grim Justice--Faustus and Mephistophilis--The Last Hour of Faustus--Autobiographical Elements in 'Doctor Faustus.'--IX. 'The Jew of Malta '--Shylock--Spanish Source of the Story--An Episode of Spanish Humour--Acting Qualities of Marlowe's Plays.--X. 'Edward II.'--Shakspere and Marlowe in the Chronicle-Play--Variety of Characters--Dialogue--The Opening of this Play--Gaveston--Edward's Last Hours.--XI. 'The Massacre at Paris'--Its Unfinished or Mangled Text--Tragedy of 'Dido '--Hyperbolical Orna...

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