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[A] concise, valuable survey ... [I]ts warm, conversational tone suggests that students on the De Montfort University course whose lectures informed this volume had a fine teacher indeed. Times Higher Education If you want to bone up on the history of drama ... then try Gary Day's very readable The Story of Drama which examines drama and how it has developed from the Greeks to the 21st century mostly through the themes of tragedy, comedy and sacrifice. SusanElkin.co.uk

[A] concise, valuable survey ... [I]ts warm, conversational tone suggests that students on the De Montfort University course whose lectures informed this volume had a fine teacher indeed. Times Higher Education If you want to bone up on the history of drama ... then try Gary Day's very readable The Story of Drama which examines drama and how it has developed from the Greeks to the 21st century mostly through the themes of tragedy, comedy and sacrifice. SusanElkin.co.uk Definitely one for any sixth former doing Drama or Theatre Studies and for anyone teaching drama to any age group. InkPellet

[A] concise, valuable survey ... [I]ts warm, conversational tone suggests that students on the De Montfort University course whose lectures informed this volume had a fine teacher indeed. Times Higher Education

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Gary Day recently retired as principal lecturer at De Montfort University, UK, where he taught courses on the history of drama, the eighteenth century, modernism, contemporary drama and contemporary fiction. He is the author of Literary Criticism: A New History (2008) and Modernist Literature: 1890-1950 (2010). He has edited a dozen books, the latest being The Wiley Encyclopaedia of British Eighteenth Century Literature (2015) with Jack Lynch. He has contributed to the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism and to the Oxford Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. He has also been a regular columnist and reviewer for the Times Higher.

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