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Loading... The Playwright as Magician: Shakespeare`s Image of the Poet in the English Public Theaterby Professor Alvin Kernan
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During Shakespeare's lifetime the courtly tradition of poetry and patronage evolved into the characteristic modern situation in which a professional poet writes for a paying public. This revolutionary change in the social circumstances of art forced poets writing for the theater to redefine their conceptions of their own roles and of the function of their art. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)822.3Literature English & Old English literatures English drama Elizabethan 1558-1625LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. Yale University PressAn edition of this book was published by Yale University Press. |