Shakespeare's Predecessors in the English Drama

1884. A series of essays by the English author Symonds who was in the forefront of the bourgeois radical men and women with socialist ideals destined to reform public opinion in the 1890s. Contents: Introductory; The Nation and the Drama; Miracle Plays; Moral Plays; The Rise of Comedy; The Rise of Tragedy; Triumph of the Romantic Drama; Theaters, Playwrights, Actors, and Playgoers; Masques at Court; English History; Domestic Tragedy; Tragedy of Blood; John Lyly; Greene, Peele, Nash and Lodge; and Marlowe. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.