Tragedy in contemporary drama with an historical survey of the tragedy of the past
Abstract
The following is an attempt to analyse the elements
or contemporary English tragedy in the light or the tragedy
of the past, with the view not so much of defining
the present type as of determining the differences existing
between it and the more easily defined tragedy of
the Greeks or Shakespeare. By contemporary tragedy is
meant the drama of a tragic nature from the time of Ibsen
and Strindberg, leaving the term modern to cover the greater
period since Shakespeare.
I owe much to the advice and guidance or Dr. R.B.
Crum under whom I have made this study, more particularly
for the freedom he allowed me in the work, and for the
inspiration he has been from the time when my interest
in this subject was first aroused in English 39, to the
completion of this paper. He has been invaluable.
A word in appreciation of the interest of Mr.
Collester, Librarian of Morrison Library, is certainly
timely. He aided in procuring books not available locally.
Less directly perhaps, but or value nevertheless, has
been my contact with Dr. John Rydjord, whose History 62
gave me much that I used in my work on this paper. Dr.
Rydjord also helped with his advice in regard to some
details of the bibliography in the absence of Dr. Crum.
John P. Cowley July 1930.
Table of Contents
Preface -- The classical type of tragedy -- The growth of tragedy in England form its beginnings to contemporary times -- The development of contemporary English tragedy -- Bibliography
Description
Thesis (M.A.)-- University of Wichita, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English