Title: A short history of English drama.
Authors: Evans, B. Ifor 1899-
Publisher: MacGibbon & Kee
Year: 1965
Subjects: English drama History and criticism
Contents: Introductory -- The origins, miracles, moralities, interludes -- The beginnings of tragedy, of the history play and of comedy; the development of the theatre -- Early Elizabethan tragedy -- Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe -- Early Elizabethan comedy and Shakespeare's other predecessors -- Shakespeare -- Shakespeare's contemporaries, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker. Domestic drama. John Heywood, George Chapman -- John Webster. Beaumont and Fletcher. Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, John Ford, James Shirley -- The Restoration Period -- the Eighteenth Century -- The Nineteenth Century -- G.B. Shaw -- The background of the English theatre in the Twentieth Century -- English drama in the Twentieth Century -- Contemporary drama.