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\nProfessor,formerly of English in the University of Cambridgeand Fellow of Girton College  \nSECOND EDITION  \nCAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITY PRESS  \nPublished by the Press Syndicate of the University of CambridgeThe Pitt Building,Trumpington Street,Cambridge CB21RP40 West 20th Street,New York,NY 10011-4211,USA10 Stamford Road,Oakleigh,Melbourne 3166,Australia  \nThis edition ⑤Cambridge University Press 1980  \nFirst published 1935Reprinted 1952,1957First paperback edition 1960Second edition 1980Reprinted 1983,1986,1990,1994  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nBradbrook.Muriel Clara.Themes and conventions of Elizabethan tragedy  \nBibliography.  \nIncludes index.  \n1.English Drama -Early modern and Elizabethan,1500-1600  \n—History and criticism.2.English drama—17th century—Historyand criticism.3.English drama(Tragedy)History and criticism.  \n4.Theatre—England—History.I.TitlePR658 T7B71980  822'.3'09  79-11596  \nISBN 0521227704 hard coversISBN 052129695 I paperback  \nTransferred to digital printing 2002  \nCONTENTS  \nPreface to the second edition  \nPART ONETHE THEATRE  \nI INTRODUCTION  \n2 CoNVENTIONS OF PRESENTATION ANDACTING  \n3 CoNVENTIONS OF ACTION  \n4 ELIZABETHAN HABITS OF READING,WRITING AND LISTENING  \ns CoNVENTIONS OF SPEECH  \nPART TWoTHE DRAMATISTS  \n6 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE  \n7 CYRIL ToURNEUR  \n8 JoHN WEBSTER  \n9 THOMAS MIDDLETON  \npage vii  \n296990  \n3  \n8  \nI3I  \nI58  \nI79  \n206  \n# vi\n\nContents  \nIo CHARACTER,IDENTITY AND THE PERFORMER'sART IN ELIZABETHAN DRAMA  \nOutline of related studies 1935-78Index  \n233  \n26I  \n267  \n# PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION\n\nThis work set out to discover how an Elizabethan wouldapproach a tragedy by Marlowe,Tourneur,Webster orMiddleton.At the time it was written,T.S.Eliot's studies ofElizabethan drama were illuminating the issue;today,conven-tions are generally recognised and utilised in the theatricalrevival which has been so noticeable since the modern stageregained a form nearer to the Elizabethan.  \nIn recent years,scholarship has been concerned largely withthe forms of various earlier stages,and the relation of plays toother dramatic rituals,entertainments and masques.I find myown concern with performance has steadily grown.By com-parison,work on the conventions of language has been sparse,yet a literary approach,such as is attempted here,is requisite,since form inheres in the text itself.We start here.  \nShakespeare is so flexible that he can fit almost any stage;inperformance he is always in practice adapted to current con-ventions.Whilst I have taken examples from his plays in Part I,for the purpose of defining conventions,the more limitedperspectives give sharper focus.We tend to think Shakespeareour contemporary;1 we know Tourneur is not.  \nA new chapter,on performance,links this book with othersthat followed,and indicates the part played by some importantfigures not given separate consideration-Marston,Chapman,  \n1 My three books on Shakespeare attempt to place him in this perspective:Shakespeare and Elizabethan Poetry;Shakespeare the Crafisman;The Living Monument.  \n# Preface to the second edition\n\nFord.The ‘tragedies'of Fletcher,Massinger and Shirley seemto me to be merely survivals;in the pejorative sense of the term,perhaps they are the most conventional of all.In the finalchapter I hope to have suggested some of the ways in which aconvention may have a history.  \nFinally,a brief summary of some of the more importantstudies of the last half century supplements the attempt to bringthis work of I935 up to date.  \nPART ONE  \n# THE THEATRE","cbCaiinzZbFqj7Aq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiinzZbFqj7Aq","pdf",4942061,278,"English","# Preface to the second edition\n# Part One: The Theatre\n## Introduction\n## Conventions of Presentation and Acting\n## Conventions of Action\n## Elizabethan Habits of Reading, Writing and Listening\n## Conventions of Speech\n# Part Two: The Dramatists\n## Christopher Marlowe\n## 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