Opis: Letters of Bulwer Lytton to Macready (Classic Reprint) - Lytton Edward Bulwer

Excerpt from Letters of Bulwer Lytton to Macready

The English drama had its sudden out-flowering in the spacious days of Elizabeth; its vigour lessened a little, though its violence increased, under James and Charles; it sprang again into luxuriant life during the Restoration; and it did not die down until after Sheridan and Goldsmith. It became feebler toward the end of the eighteenth century, to flicker almost to extinction during the middle of the next hundred years. And in the final years of the nineteenth century it revived again, to reveal itself as a vivacious rival of the novel. Probably we do not yet appreciate the full merit of the plays written in the past two-score years by the late Sir W. S. Gilbert and Sir A. W. Pinero, Mr. Barrie and Mr. Shaw. But the energetic vitality which we can discover in the drama of our language from 1875 to 1910, and which is equally evident to-day in the younger playwrights in both the British and the American branches of English literature, makes us perceive all the more sharply the flat emptiness of the English-speaking stage in the half-century which stretches from 1825 to 1875.

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Szczegóły: Letters of Bulwer Lytton to Macready (Classic Reprint) - Lytton Edward Bulwer

Nazwa: Letters of Bulwer Lytton to Macready (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Lytton Edward Bulwer
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330488577
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 210
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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