English Tragedy before Shakespeare

<p>First published in English 1961 this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy. The work offers positive standards by which to assess the development of pre-Shakespearean drama and by tracing certain characteristics in Elizabethan tragedy which were to have a bearing on Shakespeare’s dramatic technique helps to illuminate the foundations on which Shakespeare built his dramatic oeuvre.</p>