The English Chronicle Play: A Study in the Popular Historical Literature Environing Shakespeare (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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IN the following pages an attempt has been made to tell the history of one of the many and various strands which, twisted and interwoven, form the brilliant and heterogeneous Elizabethan Drama. There is always a danger in thus seeking to separate what in reality is part of an integral whole; for not only was the Eng lish Chronicle Play deeply influenced by the wealth of literature in other forms which dealt with the gene ral subject of English history, but it influenced and was in turn affected by many other varieties of drama that flourished simultaneously with it. None the less the Chronicle Play can be treated independently with greater justice than any other form of the drama; for whatever the superficial influences upon it, it retained from first to last a character essentially national and English.

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