English Drama: Forms and Development

Introduction Raymond Williams; 1. Folk play in Tudor interludes Richard Axton; 2. The Tudor mask and Elizabethan court drama Marie Axton; 3. Comic form in Ben Jonson: Volpone and the philosopher's stone Leo Salingar; 4. He that plays the king: Ford's Perkin Warbeck and the Stuart history play Anne Barton; 5. Medicinable tragedy: the structure of Samson Agonistes and seventeenth-century psychopathology Mary Ann Radzinowicz; 6. Exotick but rational entertainments: the english dramatick operas Richard Luckett; 7. The significance of Gay's drama Howard Erskine-Hill; 8. 'Coming Wonders': uses of theatre in the Victorian novel Gillian Beer; 9. Waiting for Prospero John Northam; 10. Social environment and theatrical environment: the case of English naturalism Raymond Williams; Notes; Appendix: The books and essays on Muriel C. Bradbrook and a selection of her book reviews Patricia Rignold; Index of plays, operas and entertainments; General index.