Table of Contents:
Preliminary sketch: theatrical companies and playhouses
George Chapman: comedies of intrigue
historical and philosophic tragedies
Ben Jonson: life; humorous comedies; comical satires; Roman tragedies
Ben Jonson: masques and entertainments
Ben Jonson: the masterpieces; last plays
John Marston/Thomas Dekker: melodrama and civic comedy
Thomas Heywood: romantic and chronicle-history plays; domestic dramas
John Webster/Cyril Tourneur: poetic revenge tragedies
Thomas Middleton/William Rowley: dramas of sex complications
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: burlesques and tragi-comedies
John Fletcher: comedies and romantic plays
John Fletcher and Philip Massinger: tragi-comedies; comedies of Spanish source
Philip Massinger/Nathan Field: religious, political, and social dramas
John Ford: tragedies of melancholy
James Shirley/Richard Brome: comedies of manners; romantic dramas; plays of town and country
Masques and university plays
The drolls/Sir William Davenant: plays and operas.
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Table of Contents:
Preliminary sketch: theatrical companies and playhouses
George Chapman: comedies of intrigue
historical and philosophic tragedies
Ben Jonson: life; humorous comedies; comical satires; Roman tragedies
Ben Jonson: masques and entertainments
Ben Jonson: the masterpieces; last plays
John Marston/Thomas Dekker: melodrama and civic comedy
Thomas Heywood: romantic and chronicle-history plays; domestic dramas
John Webster/Cyril Tourneur: poetic revenge tragedies
Thomas Middleton/William Rowley: dramas of sex complications
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: burlesques and tragi-comedies
John Fletcher: comedies and romantic plays
John Fletcher and Philip Massinger: tragi-comedies; comedies of Spanish source
Philip Massinger/Nathan Field: religious, political, and social dramas
John Ford: tragedies of melancholy
James Shirley/Richard Brome: comedies of manners; romantic dramas; plays of town and country
Masques and university plays
The drolls/Sir William Davenant: plays and operas.
