Patterns and perspectives in English Renaissance drama

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Part I: Patterns inspired by the classics

Controversia in the English drama: Medwall and Massinger

The metamorphosis of violence in Titus Andronicus

The death of Pompey: English style, French style

"Give me your hands": reflections on the author's agents in comedy

The appeal of the comic deceiver

Aristophanes, Plautus, Terence, and the refinement of English comedy

Part II: Patterns derived from traditions of staging

The wounds of the Civil War in Plays by Shakespeare and his predecessors

The ceremonies of Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare and the ceremonies of Romance

Spectacles of state

Things as they are and the world of absolutes in Jonson's plays and masques

John Ford and the final exaltation of love

Part III: Patterns suited to perspectives

Marlowe and the Jades of Asia

Edward II: The shadow of action

Struggle for calm: the dramatic structure of The broken heart

King John and the drama of history

Mad lovers, vainglorious soldiers

Shakespeare and Fletcher on love and friendship