The first edition of this book formed the basis of the modern approach to Elizabethan poetic drama as a performing art; an approach pursued in subsequent volumes by Professor Bradbrook. Its influence has also extended to other fields; it has been studied by Grigori Kozintesev and Sergei Eisenstein for instance. Conventions of open stage; stylized plot and characters; and actors traditions of presentation are related to the special expectations which a rhetorical training produced in the listeners. The general discussion of tragic conventions is followed by individual studies of how these were used by Marlowe; Tourneur; Webster and Middlewon. For this second edition Professor Bradbrook has revised her material and written a new introduction. A new final chapter on performace and characterization describes the conventions of role-playing. Dramatists before and after Shakespeare are compared with him in their methods of showing a complex identity on stage. This chapter also considers the work of Marston; Chapman and Ford in relation to the themes and conventions studied in earlier chapters; providing a link with the subsequent volumes in A History of Elizabethan Drama.
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