Two Tudor Interludes
Author: Ian Lancashire
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780719015236
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The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608
Author: Jeanne McCarthy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-11-25
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1315390817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Children’s Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509–1608 uncovers the role of the children’s companies in transforming perceptions of authorship and publishing, performance, playing spaces, patronage, actor training, and gender politics in the sixteenth century. Jeanne McCarthy challenges entrenched narratives about popular playing in an era of revolutionary changes, revealing the importance of the children’s company tradition’s connection with many early plays, as well as to the spread of literacy, classicism, and literate ideals of drama, plot, textual fidelity, characterization, and acting in a still largely oral popular culture. By addressing developments from the hyper-literate school tradition, and integrating discussion of the children’s troupes into the critical conversation around popular playing practices, McCarthy offers a nuanced account of the play-centered, literary performance tradition that came to define professional theater in this period. Highlighting the significant role of the children’s company tradition in sixteenth-century performance culture, this volume offers a bold new narrative of the emergence of the London theater.
Two Moral Interludes
Author: David N Klausner
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Published: 2010-02-01
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1580444466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the METS editions of Everyman (2008), Mankind (2010), and The Castle of Perseverance (2010), this volume completes the presentation of the five surviving Middle English morality plays. In addition to the texts of The Pride of Life (the earliest of the surviving morality plays) and Wisdom (which is unusual for the size of its cast and the fact that it survives in multiple copies), Klausner's edition includes two appendices which provide the texts of primary sources for the two plays as well as appropriate music (liturgical music, song, and dances) which may have accompanied performances, especially Wisdom.
The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama
Author: Thomas Betteridge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-07-19
Total Pages: 709
ISBN-13: 019956647X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Tudor Interludes
Author: Leonard Tennenhouse
Publisher: Dissertations-G
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish Dramatic Interludes, 1300–1580
Author: Darryll Grantley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-04-05
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 1139451707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDarryll Grantley has created a comprehensive guide to the interlude: the extant non-cycle drama in English from the late fourteenth century up to the period in which the London commercial theatre began. As precursors of seventeenth-century drama, not only do these interludes shed important light on the technical and literary development of Shakespearean theatre, but many are also works of considerable theatrical or cultural interest in themselves. This accessible reference guide provides an entry for each of the extant interludes and fragments (c.100) typically containing an account of early editions or manuscripts; authorship and sources; modern editions; plot summary and dramatis personae; list of social issues present in the plays; verbal and dramaturgical features; songs and music; allusions and place names; stage directions and comments on staging; and modern productions, among other valuable and informative details. There are full bibliographies, indexes of characters and songs, and appendices.
The Late Medieval Interlude
Author: Fiona S. Dunlop
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1903153212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSensitive study of the 15/16 century interlude, focussing on one of its major concerns, the depiction of male aristocracy and the development to maturity. The commercial theatre of the late sixteenth century is often credited with introducing its audiences to new modes of thought about the self, society and the nation, making them conscious that the self is performed, as an actor performs a role. Yet the earlier interlude drama, originally performed in households and other institutions of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, indicates that the late medieval period was fully aware of the theatricalityof identity. This book argues that ideas of performance inform the concepts of aristocratic masculinity developed in the plays Nature, Fulgens and Lucres, The Worlde and the Chylde, The Interlude of Youth and Calisto and Melebea. It examines how the depiction of young male aristocrats in these texts is shaped by ideas of male youth constituted in the middle ages, and shows them as failing or succeeding to perform anadult noble masculinity in the aristocratic body and in aristocratic household. The book also suggests ways in which the plays offer discreet praise and censure of the manner in which their noble patrons performed as aristocrats.Throughout, it brings out the subtle qualities of the interludes, which, the author shows, have been unjustly neglected. Dr FIONA S. DUNLOP is Research Associate of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Author: S. P. Cerasano
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 2008-08
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780838641804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReflecting a variety of scholarly interests, this volume includes articles that range addressing Africans in Elizabeth London to chapel stagings, to the theory and practice of domestic tragedy. It also includes essays on the historical and theoretical issues relating to the evolution of dramatic texts and women at the theater.
Interludes and Early Modern Society
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9401205892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this collection, contributed by an internationally distinguished group of scholars, bring up to date many aspects of the criticism of the English Interludes. The development of these plays was a significant part of the history of the growth of English drama in the sixteenth century to the extent that they may be regarded as its main stream. Arising by means of a felicitous combination of the development of printing and the growth of a professional theatre, plays of this type quickly became a forum for the presentation and exploration of many contemporary themes. They became a useful means of disseminating a wide variety of opinions and public concerns as well as exhibiting at times the intellectual brilliance of the Renaissance. The essays here are concentrated upon power, particularly in its religious and political aspects, gender and theatricality. The political and religious upheavals of the Reformation under the Tudor monarchy form a background as well as a focus at times. In particular the position of women in sixteenth-century society is examined in essays on several plays. There is also discussion of the development of theatrical techniques as playwrights worked closely with small acting companies to reach a wide audience ranging from the royal court to the common streets. This was achieved, as a number of essays make clear, through a variety of entertaining theatrical devices.
On the Queerness of Early English Drama
Author: Tison Pugh
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1487508743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book probes occluded depictions of queerness in early English drama, ranging from medieval morality plays to Reformation interludes and beyond.
