British Writers: William Langland to the English Bible, Volumes 1-8Scribner, 1979 - 400 pages This collection of critical essays covers hundreds of writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader withtheir distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background. |
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Page 212
... seems unkind to say that it came not only suddenly but out of nowhere . Yet this is true . Elizabethan tragedy was really created , in a year or two , by two men of extraordinary originality , Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd , who at ...
... seems unkind to say that it came not only suddenly but out of nowhere . Yet this is true . Elizabethan tragedy was really created , in a year or two , by two men of extraordinary originality , Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd , who at ...
Page 220
... seems to have included the use of torture , but he was freed . ( Marlowe was summoned to appear be- fore the Privy Council , but it is assumed that he had not given his testimony before he was stabbed to death in the Deptford tavern ...
... seems to have included the use of torture , but he was freed . ( Marlowe was summoned to appear be- fore the Privy Council , but it is assumed that he had not given his testimony before he was stabbed to death in the Deptford tavern ...
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... seems to need little knowledge of the world , and to reflect little light . In Dr. Faustus and in Richard III , Marlowe and Shakespeare scale heights that Kyd could not have dreamed of attempting ; yet Richard III , for all the ...
... seems to need little knowledge of the world , and to reflect little light . In Dr. Faustus and in Richard III , Marlowe and Shakespeare scale heights that Kyd could not have dreamed of attempting ; yet Richard III , for all the ...
Contents
WILLIAM LANGLAND Nevill Coghill | 1 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Nevill Coghill | 19 |
JOHN GOWER Derek Pearsall | 48 |
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