Table of Contents

Series Preface
List of Illustrations
Chapter One: Birth 1585-1640
Chapter Two: Dying and Death 1660-1900
Chapter 3: Beckett and Pinter. Two Tragicomedians

Notes
References
Index

Promotional Information

This books offers readers a lucid account of the origins, characteristics and changing status of tragicomedy from the 17th century to the present. It explores the work of some of the key English and Irish playwrights associated with the form and charts its changing status against the prevailing religious and social conditions in each age.

About the Author

Brean Hammond is Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of several books and dozens of articles on fields ranging from Renaissance theatre to modern and postmodern theatre. His best-known books are Professional Imaginative Writing (1997) and the Arden edition of Double Falsehood (2010).