English Domestic Or, Homiletic Tragedy 1575 to 1642
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English Domestic Or, Homiletic Tragedy 1575 to 1642

Being an Account of the Development of the Tragedy of the Common Man Showing Its Great Dependence on Religious Morality, Illustrated With Striking Examples of the Interposition of Providence for the Amendment of Men'S Manners

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English Domestic Or, Homiletic Tragedy 1575 to 1642

Being an Account of the Development of the Tragedy of the Common Man Showing Its Great Dependence on Religious Morality, Illustrated With Striking Examples of the Interposition of Providence for the Amendment of Men'S Manners

About this book

Interprets Elizabethan domestic tragedies as they might have appeared to the audiences who saw them in the public theaters by supplying the religious and moral background the average playgoer of the time would possess, then evaluates them in relation to other plays of the period and as a part of the history of drama.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Contents
  3. I. Critical Backgrounds
  4. II. Popular Theology
  5. III. Nondramatic Literature
  6. IV. Morality Plays
  7. V. Plays from Legend and History
  8. VI. Sixteenth-Century Murder Plays
  9. VII. Seventeenth-Century Murder Plays
  10. VIII. Thomas Heywood’s “A Woman Killed with Kindness”
  11. IX. The Decline of Domestic Tragedies
  12. X. Conclusion
  13. Appendix A. Lost Domestic Tragedies
  14. Appendix B. Heywood and Brome’s “The Late Lancashire Witches”
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index