The development of dramatic art [rare books] by Donald Clive Stuart

This basic work on the growth of Westars drama is one of the most sight studies anyone interested in the theatre can read Donald Clive Stuart, was Protessor of Dramatic Arts at Princeton University, and in this bank the curbined the knowledge of a scholar nistorian with that of a practical, playwright. The vesant is a lively, well do anted, and highly authentative tracing at the course of drama from primitive beginnings to Lugene O'Neill

Though the book covers over 2500 years and scores of plays and playwrights it is not a mere historical listing. The Development of Dramatic Art is primarily interested in pressures which brought about change, origins of style, and influences in each period I will give you a deeper understanding of why playwrights wrote as they did, what deterinined their choice of material, and social and artistic movements affecting their work in addition, Professor Stuart continually comments on changes in importänt structural matters such as methods of exposition, plot devices, stock situations, points of attack, ale He tells, in sum, a continuous, related, and highly readable story of the traditions which have colminated in the modern theatre.

Chapter titles. Origin of Greek Tragedy, Aeschylus, Sophocles Eumpides, Origin of Greek Comedy. Latin Comedy, Origin of Medieval Drama French Medieval Drama. English Medieval Drama Seneca Italian Tragedy of the Renaissance, Ita ai Comedy of the Renaissance French Comedy of the Renaissance and the 17th and the Gentürias, Tearful Comedy, Domestic Drama, German Drama