Ancient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage, 1500-1700

Bruce R. Smith

Ancient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage, 1500-1700
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
28 June 2016
Pages
304
ISBN
9780691634906

Ancient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage, 1500-1700

Bruce R. Smith

Unlike the contrast between the sacred and the taboo, the opposition of comic and tragic is not a way of categorizing experience that we find in cultures all over the world or even at different periods in Western civilization. Though medieval writers and readers distinguished stories with happy endings from stories with unhappy endings, it was

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