Elizabethan drama and its mad folk
Subtitle: the Harness prize essay for 1913
By: by Edgar Allison Peers ...
Publisher: W. Heffer and Sons, ltd.
Published: 1914
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; Literature and mental illness -- England -- History -- 16th century; Drama -- Psychological aspects; Mental illness in literature; Mentally ill in literature; Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603
Notes: Bibliography: p. 184-185.
"Index of works dealt with or quoted": p. 186-189.
"The original title of the essay was 'The mad folk of English and comedy and tragedy down to 1642'. It has been shortened ... and the term Elizabethan extended in order to take in a few plays which belong to the next two reigns."--Pref.