F. P. WILSON. EDITED WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY BY G. K. HUNTER - The English Drama, 1485-1585 (Oxford History of English Literature)

Great Britain, Oxford at Clarendon Press, 1969. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0198122098 Harback Hardbackl a couple of tiny tears to d/j.prev owners name inside. This volume represents less than half of the projected history of 'Elizabethan' drama which the late Professor F. P. Wilson was working on at the time of his death in 1963. It begins where Volume II, Part 2, by the late Sir Edmund Chambers, left off - at the accession of Henry VIII. it chronicles the decline of the Morality forms, and discusses the tentative new dramatic impulses the tentative new dramatic impulses produced by the combined pressure of Reformation and Renaissance. it ends in 1584 at the point where the fully-fledged drama of Lyly and Peele was about to soar into undoubted achievement. 244 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).