Medieval And Tudor Dram
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Author | : John Gassner |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780936839844 |
Presents examples of folk drama, and morality plays, and the early tragedies and comedies following classical models
Author | : John Gassner |
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Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781258370930 |
Author | : John Gassner |
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Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : Alan Stewart |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2021-02-19 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1770487263 |
English drama between the late fifteenth century and the late sixteenth centuries is as diverse as it is engaging; this anthology brings together eighteen of the most interesting and important dramatic works from the period. The plays have been chosen to give a broad view of the drama produced in Tudor England. They testify to the eclectic tastes of sixteenth-century audiences, ranging from morality plays (Mankind, Everyman), to comedies inspired by the Roman plays of Terence and Plautus (Ralph Roister Doister), to tragedies inspired by the plays of Seneca (Gorboduc, Cambises). In later plays, morality plots rub shoulders with slapstick comic business (The Longer Thou Livest The More Fool Thou Art, The Three Ladies of London), and classical gods intervene in the affairs of England’s regions (Gallathea). While some of the plays offer pure entertainment, others have a clear political agenda. King Johan is presented as a prototype for English resistance to Rome’s Catholicism; Gorboduc’s decision to abdicate and divide his kingdom highlights the vexed question of the English succession under a childless queen. Other plays comment more obliquely on contemporary events. Play of the Four Elements reflects on England’s nascent maritime expeditions to the New World, while The Three Ladies of London comments topically on immigrant overcrowding in England’s port towns, and the dangers of England’s trade in the Mediterranean. Some plays push the boundaries of what the theatre can do in staging violence (Cambises) and questioning gender roles (Gallathea). Designed for undergraduate use, the anthology includes extensive explanatory annotations and a substantial introduction to each play; spelling and punctuation have been partially modernized in the interests of making the texts more accessible to students. In all this, the anthology follows principles similar to those developed for Christina M. Fitzgerald’s and John T. Sebastian’s Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama; several of the plays from that anthology are also included here, while the rest have been newly edited for this volume, under the supervision of General Editor Alan Stewart.
Author | : Meg Twycross |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 135191930X |
Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century. The authors present a coherent explanation of the many functions of masking, emphasizing the important links among festive practice, specialized ceremonial, and drama. They elucidate the intellectual, moral and social contexts for masking, and they examine the purposes and rewards for participants in the activity. The authors' insight into the masking games and performances of England's medieval and early Tudor periods illuminates many aspects of the thinking and culture of the times: issues of identity and community; performance and role-play; conceptions of the psyche and of the individual's position in social and spiritual structures. Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England presents a broad overview of masking practices, demonstrating how active and prominent an element of medieval and pre-modern culture masking was. It has obvious interest for drama and literature critics of the medieval and early modern periods; but is also useful for historians of culture, theatre and anthropology. Through its analysis of masked play this study engages both with the history of theatre and performance, and with broader cultural and historical questions of social organization, identity and the self, the performance of power, and shifting spiritual understanding.
Author | : John Gassner |
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Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : Thomas Betteridge |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 709 |
Release | : 2012-07-19 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 019956647X |
A study of Tudor drama that sees the long 16th century from the accession of Henry Tudor to the death of Elizabeth as a whole, taking in the drama of the 'mystery plays' and the early work of Shakespeare. It is an account of current scholarship and an introduction to the complexity of Tudor drama.
Author | : Phillis Cunnington |
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Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Costume |
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Author | : Roger Sherman Loomis |
Publisher | : Beaufort Books |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Elisabeth Dutton |
Publisher | : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2015-10-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3823379682 |
This wide-ranging volume explores relationships between drama and pedagogy in the medieval and early modern periods, with contributions from an international ?eld of scholars including a number of leading authorities. Across the medieval and early modern periods, drama is seen to be a way of dissemi-nating theological and philosophical ideas. In medieval England, when literacy was low and the liturgy in Latin, drama translated and transformed spiritual truths, embodying them for a wider audience than could be reached by books alone. In Tudor England, humanist belief in the validity and potential of drama as a pedagogical tool informs the interlude, and examples of dramatized instruction abound on early modern stages. Academic drama is a particularly preg -nant locus for the exploration of drama and peda-gogy: universities and the Inns of Court trained some of the leading playwrights of the early theatre, but also supplied methods and materials that shaped professional playhouse compositions.