The Early Romantic Drama at the English Court
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Excerpt from The Early Romantic Drama at the English Court: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Early in the course of my studies in Elizabethan drama I undertook, at the suggestion of Professor Manly, to prepare a bibliographical compilation of the sources of all romantic plays produced in England before the close of the sixteenth century, in so far as these sources had been determined by previous research. Though designed merely as a preliminary exercise in the methods of graduate work, this survey proved both interesting and suggestive. It revealed the precise limits which had been fixed by the combined labors of former students in determining the source relations of Elizabethan drama, and it suggested a comparative analysis of the plays of the period with a view to determining the relative importance of particular types of romantic literature in providing plot material for Elizabethan playwrights. Out of these rather general considerations came the suggestion for the present study. The attempt to reduce the varied forms of romantic appeal to something approximating regular classification served, of course, to emphasize the obvious conventionality in motive and incident which many plays of the period exhibit, and to demonstrate the fact that much of the plot material had been standardized, so to speak, and needed only to be assembled and adjusted. It soon became apparent, also, that the romantic devices and conventions which I had designated as "mediaeval," in contrast to those of Renaissance origin and affiliation, were overwhelmingly predominant during the early period of Elizabethan drama. Thus the contact of mediaeval literature with the later romantic secular drama seemed to constitute a logical topic for investigation. But owing to the particularly fugitive character of all evidence bearing upon the history of the popular stage in England prior to the last quarter of the sixteenth century, it seemed advisable to rest my study upon the more stable foundation of the court performance. Here, at least, we are dealing with a demonstrable matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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