title: Types of Drama: Plays and Contexts (8th Edition)
author: Sylvan Barnet
description: Types of Drama, 8/e offers a full range of plays from ancient Greece to the present. Like the earlier editions, this collection gives strong representation of such familiar authors as the Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, Ibsen, and O'Neill as well as to contemporary classic authors such as Miller, Williams and Churchill.  New to the eighth edition are twenty-eight works including a commedia dell'arte scenario, a Noh play, an opera by Gertrude Stein, a farce by Dario Fo, Elizabeth Robins's neglected  Votes for Women , and Suzan-Lori-Parks's newest play,  In the Blood .   For individuals interested in expanding their knowledge and critical understanding of dramatic performances, their histories and the important role of reviewers.
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  # The Growth of English Drama
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Arnold Wynne
  
  
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  * [PREFACE.](gdram_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER I. EARLY CHURCH DRAMA ON THE CONTINENT](gdram_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER II. ENGLISH MIRACLE PLAYS](gdram_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER III. MORALITIES AND INTERLUDES](gdram_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER IV. RISE OF COMEDY AND TRAGEDY](gdram_split_6.html#1_0_6)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER V. COMEDY: LYLY, GREENE, PEELE, NASH](gdram_split_7.html#1_0_7)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VI. TRAGEDY: LODGE, KYD, MARLOWE, ARDEN OF
  
  
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  THE GROWTH OF ENGLISH DRAMA
  
  
  by
  
  
  ARNOLD WYNNE, M.A.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Oxford At the Clarendon Press Printed in England At the Oxford
  
  
  University Press by John Johnson Printer to the University Impression
  
  
  of 1927 