Degree Year
1975
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Advisor(s)
Robert Longsworth
Keywords
William Shakespeare, Playwrights
Abstract
Almost all English drama suffers from the awful curse of having been written either before or after the works of William Shakespeare. It is generally admitted that no English dramatist rivals Shakespeare ; as a result, ever since the invention of "literacy criticism" sometime in the nineteenth century, Shakespeare has received the lion's share of critical attention paid to the theater. Later playwrights have, indeed, been given a certain amount of critical treatment. The real losers have been the plays written before Shakespeare's time-- the theater of the Middle Ages.
Repository Citation
Baswell, Christopher, "Playing for Real: The Experience of Drama at Medieval York" (1975). Honors Papers. 737.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/737
