The Dramatist and the Received Idea

by Wilbur Sanders and Sanders

Book Overview

Dr Sanders' book grew out of uneasiness over commonly accepted ways of talking about Elizabethan literature. Phrases like 'world picture', 'received ideas' are so easily used that we bypass important questions: A picture of whose word? Ideas received by whom? and in what way? The heart of Dr Sanders' book is a critical account of seven plays by Marlowe and Shakespeare (The Massacre at Paris, The Jew of Malta, Edward II, Dr Faustus, Richard II, Richard...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521298008
• ISBN13: 9780521298001
• Release Date: June 1980
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"