THE PRESENTATION OF TIME IN THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA

A Thesis presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

YALE STUDIES IN ENGLISH

ALBERT S. COOK, EDITOR

XLIV

THE PRESENTATION OF TIME
IN THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA

BY

MABLE BULAND, Ph.D.

A Thesis presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale
University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. The Problem of Double Time

Time as a matter of dramatic technique, 1.

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English Traveller, 11.

· David and Bethsabe, 14.

fundamental to drama, 16.

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Definition

Othello, 5.

Dramatic condensation

Psychology of the illusion,

Genesis of the phenomenon of double time, 19.

CHAPTER II. Dramatic Condensation in the Classical

CHAPTER III. The Representation of Time in the For-

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comedies, 36.· Romantic comedy, 39. Entertainments,

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CHAPTER IV. The Unity of Time in Elizabethan Crit-