The Drama in Great Britain I

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A survey of the development of drama in Great Britain from the Middle Ages to Romanticism. Genres include mystery plays, Elizabethan plays other than Shakespeare, Jacobean revenge tragedy, Restoration comedy, and closet drama, with later film adaptations. Authors may include the Wakefield Master, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Aphra Behn, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Byron.