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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1915 Excerpt: ... THE ELIZABETHAN AGE IN ENGLAND Section I.--Seneca In England We have seen from our survey of the medieval drama in England that it achieved a serious and artistically satisfying method of dealing with the supernatural; and furthermore, that the tradition thus established lasted until newer forms of drama were definitely replacing the old, and was never brusquely abandoned. In tracing the historical sequence of our subject we are justified in leaving the moralities aside, since by their very nature they lacked the possibility of attaining that contrast necessary to the effective use of the supernatural. The abstractions which take part in the moralities are all on the same plane; and differentiation only leads to the accentuating of the human characters, in other words toward comedy of manners. Considering, then, the miracle-plays as the source of the native method in the dramatic handling of the supernatural, we have to note that such material as they afforded for treatment wa
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- Author
- Whitmore, Charles Edward
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 1915
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674289437
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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