Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

Department 1

English

Abstract

This essay analyzes Hardy’s rarely discussed epic-drama, The Dynasts, especially in relation to trends in the early twentieth-century drama. Hardy’s work is a hybrid of epic, drama, and lyric and was, at the time, thought to be unstageable.

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Essay available at http://www.oscholars.com/Upstage/issue5/Flynn5.htm

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