The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... Elizabethan drama . And the dominance of the drama from about 1580 to 1640 is in itself one reason why one could not expect great prose novels during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods . Every age has its major literary form , to ...
... Elizabethan drama . And the dominance of the drama from about 1580 to 1640 is in itself one reason why one could not expect great prose novels during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods . Every age has its major literary form , to ...
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... Elizabethan drama is probably nearer to opera than to the novel , though this does not mean that the Elizabethan dramatists were incapable of creating the kind of characters we find in the later drama and in the novel ; Shakespeare is ...
... Elizabethan drama is probably nearer to opera than to the novel , though this does not mean that the Elizabethan dramatists were incapable of creating the kind of characters we find in the later drama and in the novel ; Shakespeare is ...
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... Elizabethan plays as novels is no doubt to find them unsatisfactory as novels , but as soon as they were printed this is how they must have been read . During the seventeenth century they were widely read , and one obvious effect on the ...
... Elizabethan plays as novels is no doubt to find them unsatisfactory as novels , but as soon as they were printed this is how they must have been read . During the seventeenth century they were widely read , and one obvious effect on the ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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