English Drama(1586-1642) : the age of shakespeare
/ Prajna Paramita
- 1st ed.
- New Delhi: Pearl Books, c 2017.
- 368 p. :22cm.
Includes index
Shakespeare is usually set apart from his contemporaries, in kind no less than quality. This book sees Elizabethan drama as drawn together by a shared need to deal with contradictory pressures from heterogeneous audiences, censorious authorities, profit driven managers, and authors looking for classic status and social esteem.