English Domestic Or, Homiletic Tragedy 1575 to 1642 : : Being an Account of the Development of the Tragedy of the Common Man Showing Its Great Dependence on Religious Morality, Illustrated With Striking Examples of the Interposition of Providence for the Amendment of Men'S Manners / / Henry Hitch Adams.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Adams, Henry Hitch,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1943]; ©1943
• Year of Publication: 1943
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature ; 159
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Interprets Elizabethan domestic tragedies as they might have appeared to the audiences who saw them in the public theaters by supplying the religious and moral background the average playgoer of the time would possess, then evaluates them in relation to other plays of the period and as a part of the history of drama.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Critical Backgrounds -- II. Popular Theology -- III. Nondramatic Literature -- IV. Morality Plays -- V. Plays from Legend and History -- VI. Sixteenth-Century Murder Plays -- VII. Seventeenth-Century Murder Plays -- VIII. Thomas Heywood's "A Woman Killed with Kindness" -- IX. The Decline of Domestic Tragedies -- X. Conclusion -- Appendix A. Lost Domestic Tragedies -- Appendix B. Heywood and Brome's "The Late Lancashire Witches" -- Bibliography -- Index