Product Description: Reprint edition of the 1916 publication, a translation into English of Books I-VIII of the fourth volume of Geschichte des neueren Dramas, by Wilhelm Creizenach, formerly Professor at the University of Cracow, Poland. It is a thorough account of Elizabethan drama widely regarded as the most important study of its kind yet published, and includes Creizenach's chapters on the Shakespearean era, its dramatic materials, types of character, versification and style, and staging and histrionic art...read more