Year: 1969
Type: book-review
Abstract: At the beginning of this stimulating and often incisive study, Arthur C. Kirsch observes that our understanding of Jacobean drama can be much enhanced if its critics remember that it is not just a re-run of Elizabethan drama.Jacobean drama has its own distinctive attributes, Kirsch rightly emphasizes, and Jacobean Dramatic Perspectives attempts to illuminate a wide range of Jacobean plays by tracing the effects of some of these unique attributes.Three interrelated phenomena in particular are seen as having a profound shaping influence on the form of the drama: the growth of Fletcherian tragicomedy, the earlier vogue for satiric drama, and the sociological factor that reinforced both of these generic developments, the rise of the coterie theatre.Kirsch argues that all three pheno-
Source: Renaissance and Reformation
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2164477377