The genius of the early English theater (1962)

by Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman (Editor), William Burto (Editor)

Other authors: Ben Jonson (Contributor), Christopher Marlowe (Contributor), John Milton (Contributor), William Shakespeare (Contributor), Sir Philip Sidney (Contributor)

Series: Mentor Genius of the Theater Series

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laplantelibrary | Apr 17, 2022 |

Genius might be a bit...strong...for a number of these plays. They are standard issue morality plays from the early English theatre, and many of them are rather tedious. There are some truly great works in here, such as MacBeth and Marlowe's Faust. Jonson's Volpone completes the trifecta of worthy plays. I'm afraid Milton's Samson Agonistes left me cold. It probably reads better as poetry than as a play, but even then, it was too repetitive, and way too much logorrhea. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Sylvan Barnet	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Berman, Morton	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Burto, William	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Jonson, Ben	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Marlowe, Christopher	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Milton, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Shakespeare, William	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sidney, Sir Philip	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed