... of the playwright’s work and overturn the traditional ideal of drama as a clarifying mirror of men and their relation to their world. The citizens create as well as destroy, but their idea of a good play is almost as appalling-aesthetically and morally-as their be- havior. They will tolerate only...

...-1930). [ Georges Lemuitre] 36 1 Philip A. Wadsworth. The Novels of Gomberville. A Critical Study of Polexandre and Cythkrke. [Marc Denkinger] . 362 Leo Kirschenbaum. Enrique Gaspar and the Social Drama in Spain. [William E. Wilson] 364 B. J. Whiting, et al. The College Survey...

...Geraldo U. de Sousa From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England . By Douglas A. Brooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2000. xviii + 293 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass...

...J. Leeds Barroll Lily B. Campbell. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; Cambridge: At the University Press, 1959 Pp. viii + 268. $5.00. Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 REVIEWS Divine Poetry and Drama in Sixteenth...

...John C. Coldewey Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 THE LAST RISE AND FINAL DEMISE OF ESSEX TOWN DRAMA By JOHN C. COLDEWEY Cause and effect are often difficult to distinguish. Such is the dilem- ma...

... to some, always the sign of originali ty, but will he convincing to many others, t 11 is reviewer i ncl utled. ~IARCEL‘I’ETEL Duke University Historical Drama: The Relation of Literature and Reality. By HERBERT...

... Schiller’s Drama: Talent and Integrity. By ILSE GRAHAM.New York: Harper 8c Row, 1974. xii 4- 406 pp. $20.00. Ilse Graham’s book is a study of remarkable quality and obviously the fruit of many years of scholarly labor and intimate familiarity with Schiller’s dramatic work and theoretical...

... modest, more accurate title for it. To me, at least, “develop- men t” implies something besides a succession of typical modes which emerged among new plays, and “English drama” suggests aesthetic questions inextricable from generic history. But Hunie’s subject, as he says on the first page...

...Herbert Lindenberger G. Richards David. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1977. xii + 289 pp. $25.00. Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 78 REVIEWS Georg Biichner and the Birth of the Modern Drama...

... Tudor Drama, Together m*th a Text of the Play Based on the Black-Letter Original. By KENNETHWALTER CAM- ERON. Raleigh, North Carolina : The Thistle Press, 1941. Pp. 132. $2.75. Gentleness and Nobility 11522-1523). By JOHN HEYWOOD(Origi- nally edited...

... Tudor Drama, Together m*th a Text of the Play Based on the Black-Letter Original. By KENNETHWALTER CAM- ERON. Raleigh, North Carolina : The Thistle Press, 1941. Pp. 132. $2.75. Gentleness and Nobility 11522-1523). By JOHN HEYWOOD(Origi- nally edited...

... in Early Tudor Drama, Together m*th a Text of the Play Based on the Black-Letter Original. By KENNETHWALTER CAM- ERON. Raleigh, North Carolina : The Thistle Press, 1941. Pp. 132. $2.75. Gentleness and Nobility 11522-1523). By JOHN HEYWOOD(Origi- nally edited...

...OTTO REINERT HAUGEN EINAR. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979. ix + 185 pp. $15.00, cloth; $6.95, paper. Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 OTTO REINERT 199 Ibsen’s Drama: Author to Audience. By EINARHAUGEN...

...J. L. Styan Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 DRAMA AS RITUAL’ By J. L. STYAN African tribesmen leap in a dance to make their corn grow tall, or re-enact a killing of the tribal enemy by having one of their number...

... The Immense Complex Drama: The World and Art of the Howells Novel. By GEORGEC. CARRINGTON,JR. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1966. xii + 245 pp. $6.25. “We must look at Howells,” George Carrington writes (seemingly without a backward, historical glance) “. . . in his own...

... 141 Annals of English Drama, 975-1700. By ALFREDHARBAGE. Phila- delphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, published in co- operation with The Modem Language Association of America, 1940. Pp. viii + 264. $3.00. With the passing years the tools of English scholarship...

.... The printing has been done with care. Only two misprints were noted: not (p. 177) for nor, and Weibsanstalt (p. 269) for Weibs- gestalt. MAX SCHERTEL University of IJWLz‘ngton The Artist in Modern German Drama. Ey RALPHSTOKES COLLINS. Doctor’s...

... drama. L. L. BARRETT Washington and Lee University Tudor Drama and Politics: A Critical Approach to Topical Meaning. By DAVIDBEVINGTON. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. 360 pp. $1 0.00. In his opening sentence, David...

...” or “not true.” For Burckhardt seems to me to be the poet as critic-the man with a special “vision,” to risk that debased word, by which he creates a new world of the plays rather than discerns in them an indwelling dramatic and characterological world. Lear is not a drama of motives, for him...

...James E. Hirsh Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 THE “TO BE OR NOT TO BE” SCENE AND THE CONVENTIONS OF SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA By JAMES E. HIRSH Taken out of context, Hamlet’s...