Ancient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage, 1500-1700

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Ancient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage, 1500-1700
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Bruce R. Smith
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 279,Width 216
Category/GenreDrama
ISBN/Barcode 9780691606064
ClassificationsDewey:792.0941
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 14 July 2014
Publication Country United States

Description

Unlike the contrast between the sacred and the taboo, the opposition of "comic" and "tragic" is not a way of categorizing experience that we find in cultures all over the world or even at different periods in Western civilization. Though medieval writers and readers distinguished stories with happy endings from stories with unhappy endings, it was