The Tudor Drama. A History Of English National Drama to the Retirement of Shakespeare by BROOKE, C.F. Tucker - 1911

Boston: Riverside Press/ Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911. VERY GOOD book condition/NO dust jacket. Burgandy cloth hard cover with slightly darkened gilt lettering on spine. Small amount of sherl dent & shelf rub to corners, edges & spine ends. Small amoutn of light droplet spots to front & back covers. Page edges lightly age tanned with light shelf soil. 3 previous owner names with 2 dates neatly written on top of ffep. Occasional neat margin notes, margin marks &/or underlines by previous owner. Black & white frontispiece is a facsimile of a 1596 sketch of the interior of the Swan Theatre. There are an additional 8 black & white illustrations. From the Preface: "The following pages ahve grown out of a series of lectures on "The Sources of the Elizabethan Drama," given in 1908 at Magdalen College, Oxford. ..." Chapters include: Scriptural and Miracle Drama, The Early Morality, The Tudor Interlude, The Interlude in Transition, Classical Influence in Comedy, Classical Influence in Tragedy, The Heroic Play, Romantic Comedy and Pastoral Comedy, The History Play, Drama of Contemporary Incident, Realistic Comedy, and The Nature of Elizabethan Drama.461 pp with Index. Pages are clean & uncreased. Picture is provided by the seller & is of the actual book you will receive.. Unstated/Presumed First. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.