Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk / The Harness Prize Essay for 1913

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CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

CHAPTER I. Introductory.

CHAPTER II. The Presentation of Madness from the Standpoint of History.

CHAPTER III. The Presentation of Madness from the Standpoint of Literature.

CHAPTER IV. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy (i.) The Maniacs.

CHAPTER V. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy. ( ii. ) Imbecility.

CHAPTER VI. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy. ( iii. ) Melancholy.

CHAPTER VII. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy ( iv. )

CHAPTER VIII. Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy. ( vi. ) The Pretenders.

CHAPTER IX. Conclusion. Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

INDEX OF WORKS DEALT WITH OR QUOTED.

Title: Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk

The Harness Prize Essay for 1913

Author: E. Allison (Edgar Allison) Peers

Language: English

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ELIZABETHAN DRAMA AND
ITS MAD FOLK


W. Heffer Sons Ltd. colophon

LONDON AGENTS:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & Co. Ltd.

The Harness Prize Essay for 1913

BY

EDGAR ALLISON PEERS, B.A.

Late Scholar of Christ’s College, Cambridge.

Cambridge:
W. HEFFER AND SONS LTD.
1914

To
My Mother

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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