The mediaeval stage, volume 1 (of 2)

· 1954

[_General Bibliographical Note._ I mention here only a few works of wide range, which may be taken as authorities throughout these two volumes. Others, more limited in their scope, are named in the preliminary notes to the sections of the book on whose subject-matter they bear.--An admirable general history of the modern drama is W. Creizenach’s still incomplete _Geschichte des neueren Dramas_ (Band i, _Mittelalter und Frührenaissance_, 1893; Bände ii, iii, _Renaissance und Reformation_, 1901-3). R. Prölss, _Geschichte des neueren Dramas_ (1881-3), is slighter. The earlier work of J. L. Klein, _Geschichte des Dramas_ (13 vols. 1865-76), is diffuse, inconvenient, and now partly obsolete. A va…

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