Islam in English LiteraturePrinted at the American Press, 1939 - 258 pages |
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Page 17
... representing Moslem lands and characters , the first and greatest being Marlowe's Tamburlaine . In Marlowe's glorious hero ... represented events in recent Persian history ; and the defeat and death in Morocco of Don Sebastian , king of ...
... representing Moslem lands and characters , the first and greatest being Marlowe's Tamburlaine . In Marlowe's glorious hero ... represented events in recent Persian history ; and the defeat and death in Morocco of Don Sebastian , king of ...
Page 96
... represented not unsympathetically , stands the tragedy , Mahomet , The Impostor ( 1744 ) , a translation by the Rev. James Miller ( the fifth act translated by the Rev. James Hoadley ) of Voltaire's Le Fanatisme , ou Mahomet le Prophète ...
... represented not unsympathetically , stands the tragedy , Mahomet , The Impostor ( 1744 ) , a translation by the Rev. James Miller ( the fifth act translated by the Rev. James Hoadley ) of Voltaire's Le Fanatisme , ou Mahomet le Prophète ...
Page 126
... represented the new romantic spirit , tended to displace it . Melodrama , however , failed to develop into a satisfactory dramatic form , for it moved more and more in the direction of the spectacle - a type of dramatic performance ...
... represented the new romantic spirit , tended to displace it . Melodrama , however , failed to develop into a satisfactory dramatic form , for it moved more and more in the direction of the spectacle - a type of dramatic performance ...
Contents
THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE | 1 |
THE AGE OF DRYDEN | 19 |
THE AGE OF POPE | 55 |
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