rise and fall of blank verse as a vehicle for the drama of Elizabethan period with particular attention to the progression and retrogression of truncated lines as seen in the plays of Christopher Marloew, the first of the great Elizabethans; Willian Shakespeare, the greatest of all dramatists; and James Shirley, the last of the great Elizabethans.
Published: 1931
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Notes: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston College, 1931.

Includes bibliographical references.