In a series of essays on representative dramatists, Ronald Peacock follows the fortunes of poetic drama in Europe from the decline of romanticism, through the age of realism, to the renewal of poetic forms in the 1930s.

In a series of essays on representative dramatists, Ronald Peacock follows the fortunes of poetic drama in Europe from the decline of romanticism, through the age of realism, to the renewal of poetic forms in the 1930s.