Author: Clemen, Wolfgang
Title: English Tragedy Before Shakespeare - The Development Of Dramatic Speech
Description: Methuen, 1961, 1st English edition. Cloth, dj, VG/G+. 301pp, index, a nice near fine copy in a slightly yellowed dustjacket. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ Study of the transition from oration & epic report to a form of speech which is closely bound up with situation & character. The author looks at English plays from Gorboduc to Marlowes Edward II.

Keywords: literature, speech, dialogue, language, drama