Renaissance Drama (Critical Survey of Drama)
Introduction
The Renaissance means many things about an amorphous period in political, economic, scientific, and above all cultural history, involving a number of Western countries at various stages in their development. The scholarly attempts to block it off with dates, however roughly allocated, confuse more than they clarify because the phenomenon made itself felt at different times in different places. The single fact of which one can be sure is that it all began in Italy, sometime in the fourteenth century, and then later—more than a century later—spread to other...
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