Note 1 — Chapter Two THE DRAMATURGY

The recognition of this deficiency forced Thomas W. Baldwin to develop his theory of Shakespeare’s five-act structure in reference to the Renaissance critics of France, Italy, and Germany (Shakespeare’s Five-Act Structure, Urbana, 1947). Henry Popkin, Dramatic Theory of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Playwrights (unpublished dissertation, Harvard, 1950) endeavors to show that the Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights were aware of prevailing theories of drama, but he does not go on to show that they introduced what they knew into what they wrote.