The Oxford Handbook Of Tudor Drama Tudor Drama Oxford Handbooks Online

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. Part 1. Religious Drama -- Part Ii. Interludes And Comedies -- Part Iii. Entertainments, Masques, And Royal Entries -- Part Iv. Histories And Political Dramas. Edited By Thomas Betteridge And Greg Walker. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: ‘When Lyberte ruled’: Tudor Drama 1485–1603 PART I: RELIGIOUS DRAMA 1. The Chester Cycle 2. ‘In the beginning’: Performing the Creation in the York Corpus Christi Play 3. The Croxton Play of the Sacrament 4. Venus in Sackcloth: The Digby Mary Magdalen and Wisdom Fragment 5. The Summoning of Everyman 6. John Bale, Three Laws 7. John Foxe, Christus Triumphans 8. The “blindnesse of the flesh” in Nathaniel Woodes’ The Conflict of Conscience 9. Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus PART II: INTERLUDES AND COMEDIES 10. Henry Medwall, Fulgens and Lucres 11. Gentleness and Nobility , John Rastell, c.1525–27 12. John Heywood, The Play of the Weather 13. John Redford, Wit and Science 14. Nice Wanton , c.1550 15. Lusty Juventus 16. Gammer Gurton’s Needle 17. Male Friendship and Counsel in Richard Edwards’ Damon and Pythias 18. Robert Wilson’s The Three Ladies of London and its Theatrical and Cultural Contexts 19. John Lyly, Endymion 20. Ceremony and Selfhood in The Comedy of Errors (c.1592) 21. The Niniversity at the Bankside: Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay PART III: ENTERTAINMENTS , MASQUES, AND ROYAL ENTRIES 22. The Funeral of Henry VII and the Drama of Death 23. The Coronation of Anne Boleyn 24. Hall’s Chronicle and the Greenwich Triumphs of 1527 25. Entertaining the Queen at Woodstock, 1575 26. The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune, 1582 PART IV: HISTORIES AND POLITICAL DRAMAS 27. Morality, Theatricality, and Masculinity in The Interlude of Youth and Hick Scorner 28. ‘Pullyshyd and fresshe is your ornacy’: Madness and the Fall of Skelton’s Magnyfycence 29. Paranoid History: John Bale’s King Johan 30. Respublica 31. Tragic Inspiration in Jasper Heywood’s Translation of Seneca’s Thyestes: Melpomene or Megaera? 32. Dumb Politics in Gorboduc 33. Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy 34. Tamburlaine 35. The Troublesome Reign of King John 36. Sovereignty and Commonwealth in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2 37. Arden of Faversham: The Moral of History and the Thrill of Performance 38. The Most Lamentable Roman Tragedy of Titus Andronicus: Shakespeare and Tudor Theatre Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama is the authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theatre history, drama, and literary studies, its scope reflects the broad reach of Tudor drama as a subject, inviting readers to see the Tudor century as a whole, rather than made up of artificial and misleading divisions between'medieval'and'renaissance', religious and secular, pre- and post-Shakespeare. The contributors, both the established leaders in their fields and the brightest young scholars, attend to the contexts, intellectual, theatrical and historical within which drama was written, produced and staged in this period, and ask us to consider afresh this most vital and complex of periods in theatre history. The book is divided into four sections: Religious Drama; Interludes and Comedies, Entertainments, Masques, and Royal Entries; and Histories and political dramas. The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama is the authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theater history, drama, and literary studies, its scope reflects the broad reach of Tudor drama as a subject, inviting readers to see the Tudor century as a whole, rather than made up of artificial and misleading divisions between "medieval" and "renaissance," religious and secular, pre- and post-Shakespeare. The contributors, both the established leaders in their fields and the brightest young scholars, attend to the contexts, intellectual, theatrical and historical within which drama was written, produced and staged in this period, and ask us to consider afresh this most vital and complex of periods in theater history. The book is divided into four Religious Drama; Interludes and Comedies; Entertainments, Masques, and Royal Entries; and Histories and Political Dramas. The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama provides an authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theatre history, drama, and literary studies, its scope reflects the broad reach of Tudor drama as a subject, inviting readers to see the Tudor century as a whole, rather than made up of artificial and misleading divisions between ‘medieval’ and ‘renaissance’, religious and secular, pre- and post-Shakespeare. The articles attend to the contexts, intellectual, theatrical, and historical within which drama was written, produced, and staged in this period, and ask us to consider afresh this most vital and complex of periods in theatre history. The book is divided into four sections which cover religious drama; interludes and comedies, entertainments, masques, and royal entries; and histories and political dramas This is the first comprehensive 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 numinous drama of the 'Mystery Plays' and the early work of Shakespeare. It is an invaluable account of current scholarship and an introduction to the complexity of Tudor drama.