'Bring Furth the Pagants' : Essays in Early English Drama Presented to Alexandra F. Johnston

Written to honour the distinguished work and career of Alexandra F. Johnston, __'Bring furth the pagants'__ brings together original essays in early English drama by colleagues and students of the founder and director of the Records of Early English Drama Project. Contents 5 Alexandra Ferguson Johnston 7 PART ONE. The Records 15 Star Turns or Small Companies? 15 ‘Young men will do it’: Fun, Disorder, and Good Government in York, 1555; Some Thoughts on House Book 21 47 The Southwest Entertains: Exeter and Local Performance Patronage 64 Coming Home: Provincial Gentry Families: Their Performers, Their Great Halls, Their Entertainments, and REED 83 Pageantry on London Bridge in the Early Fifteenth Century 97 The Ordo paginarum Revisited, with a Digital Camera 111 REED York, Volume 3, The ‘Revivals’ 138 PART TWO. Medieval Plays 171 Doubting Thomas: ‘Womans Witnes’ and the Towneley Thomas Indie 171 The Modular Structure of Wisdom 187 On Bombshells and Faulty Assumptions: What the Digby Conversion of Saint Paul Really Did with the Acts of the Apostles 203 Some Theological Issues in Chester’s Plays 218 The Role of the Presenter in Medieval Drama 236 PART THREE. Renaissance Plays 277 ‘Awake your faith’: English Resurrection Drama and The Winter’s Tale 277 One Hell of an Ending: Staging Last Judgment in the Towneley Plays and in Doctor Faustus A and B 298 A Bibliography of Alexandra F. Johnston’s Publications, 1967–2006 317 Contributors 325 Index 327

Written to honour the distinguished work and career of Alexandra F. Johnston, 'Bring furth the pagants' brings together original essays in early English drama by colleagues and students of the founder and director of the Records of Early English Drama Project.

Editors David N. Klausner and Karen Sawyer Marsalek have grouped the contributions into three primary areas of Johnston's research: the study of documentary records in relation to drama, including new research on the York documents; the interpretation of early English drama, focusing both on the biblical plays and also on the moral interludes, including a broad survey of the role of the Expositor figure in English and French plays; and the drama of the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Marlowe and Shakespeare) from the standpoint of its medieval background.

Diverse, thought-provoking, and original, this collection acts as an important complement to the REED volumes and provides a fitting tribute to the scholar it honours.

Written to honour the distinguished work and career of Alexandra F. Johnston, 'Bring furth the pagants' brings together original essays in early English drama by colleagues and students of the founder and director of the Records of Early English Drama Project. Editors David N. Klausner and Karen Sawyer Marsalek have grouped the contributions into three primary areas of Johnston's research: the study of documentary records in relation to drama, including new research on the York documents; the interpretation of early English drama, focusing both on the biblical plays and also on the moral interludes, including a broad survey of the role of the Expositor figure in English and French plays; and the drama of the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Marlowe and Shakespeare) from the standpoint of its medieval background. Diverse, thought-provoking, and original, this collection acts as an important complement to the REED volumes and provides a fitting tribute to the scholar it honours