The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama

Zusatztext The book is essential for students of English Renaissance drama and experienced scholars will also find ground-breaking material here. Informationen zum Autor Thomas Betteridge is Professor of English Literature and Drama at Oxford Brookes University. His books include Tudor Histories of the English Reformations (1999), Literature and Politics in the English Reformation (2004) and Shakespearean Fantasy and Politics (2005). He is currently working on a study of Sir Thomas More's writing to be published by Notre Dame Press 2012. Professor Betteridge was project leader of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research project Staging the Henrician Court and the Wellcome Trust funded project Medicine, Birth and Death at the Tudor Court. Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and Head of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, having previously been the University's Masson Professor of English Literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, The English Association and the Society of Antiquaries. Greg's research is primarily focused on the literary and political history of the late medieval period and the sixteenth century, although he has also published on modern popular music and the films of Alexander Korda. He is interested in the history of the stage, and in the cultural consequences of the Henrician Reformation. His most recent books are Writing under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation (OUP, 2005) and The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (OUP, 2010), co-edited with Elaine Treharne. Klappentext The first comprehensive study of Tudor drama; an invaluable account of current scholarship and an introduction to the complexity of the form. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'When Lyberte ruled': Tudor Drama 1485 - 1603 Religious Drama 1: Sheila Christie: The Chester Cycle: Creation and Old Testament Plays 2: Greg Walker: The York Creation Pageant 3: Elisabeth Dutton: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament 4: Vincent Gillespie: The Digby Plays - Mary Magdalene and Wisdom 5: Andrew Hadfield: Everyman, c.1516 6: James Simpson: The Three Laws, John Bale, 1538 7: Andreas Hoefele: Christus Triumphans, John Foxe, 1556 8: Anna Rhiel: The Conflict of Conscience, 1572 9: David Lawton: Dr Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, 1588? Interludes and Comedies 10: Clare Wright: Fulgens and Lucrece, Henry Medwall, 1497 11: Daniel Wakelin: Gentleness and Nobility, John Rastell, c.1529 12: Pam King: The Play of the Weather, John Heywood, 1529-33 13: Meg Twycross: Wit and Science, John Redford, 1539-47 14: John J McGavin: Nice Wanton, 1550 15: Jane Griffiths: Lusty Juv...

List of contents

• Introduction: 'When Lyberte ruled': Tudor Drama 1485 - 1603


• Religious Drama


• 1: Sheila Christie: The Chester Cycle: Creation and Old Testament Plays


• 2: Greg Walker: The York Creation Pageant


• 3: Elisabeth Dutton: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament


• 4: Vincent Gillespie: The Digby Plays - Mary Magdalene and Wisdom


• 5: Andrew Hadfield: Everyman, c.1516


• 6: James Simpson: The Three Laws, John Bale, 1538


• 7: Andreas Hoefele: Christus Triumphans, John Foxe, 1556


• 8: Anna Rhiel: The Conflict of Conscience, 1572


• 9: David Lawton: Dr Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, 1588?


• Interludes and Comedies


• 10: Clare Wright: Fulgens and Lucrece, Henry Medwall, 1497


• 11: Daniel Wakelin: Gentleness and Nobility, John Rastell, c.1529


• 12: Pam King: The Play of the Weather, John Heywood, 1529-33


• 13: Meg Twycross: Wit and Science, John Redford, 1539-47


• 14: John J McGavin: Nice Wanton, 1550


• 15: Jane Griffiths: Lusty Juventus, R. Wever, 1550


• 16: Alan J Fletcher: Gammer Gurton's Needle, W. Stevenson?, 1553


• 17: Jennifer Richards: Damon and Pythias, Richard Edwards, 1564


• 18: Claire Jowitt: The Three Ladies of London, Robert Wilson, 1581


• 19: Leah Scragg: Endymion, John Lyly, 1588


• 20: Alison Findlay: The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare, c. 1592


• 21: Sarah Knight: Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Robert Greene, 1592


• Entertainments, Masques, and Royal Entries


• 22: Sam Wood: The Funeral of Henry VII, 1509


• 23: Tracy Sowerby: The Coronation of Anne Boleyn, Nicholas Udall, 1533


• 24: Kent Rawlinson: Greenwich, 1527, Halle's Chronicle, c.1540


• 25: ErzsÃ(c)bet Stróbl: The Entertainment at Woodstock, George Gascoigne, 1575


• 26: Allyna Ward: Love and Fortune, 1580


• Histories and political dramas


• 27: Eleanor Rycroft: Youth and Hick Scorner, 1513


• 28: Peter Happÿ: Magnfyfcence, John Skelton, c.1519


• 29: Philip Schwyzer: King Johan, John Bale, c.1538


• 30: Sarah Carpenter: Respublica, Nicholas Udall, c.1554


• 31: Mike Pincombe: Thyestes, Jasper Heywood, 1560 and Agamemnon


• 32: Alice Hunt: Gorboduc, Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville, 1562


• 33: Richard Hillman: The Spanish Tragedy, Thomas Kyd, 1587


• 34: Janette Dillon: Tamburlane The Great, Christopher Marlowe, 1590


• 35: Stephen Longstaffe: The Troublesome Reign of King John, 1591


• 36: Dermot Cavanagh: Henry VI Part 2, William Shakespeare, c.1590


• 37: Ros King: Arden of Faversham, 1592


• 38: Thomas Betteridge: Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare, c.1593

About the author

Thomas Betteridge is Professor of English Literature and Drama at Oxford Brookes University. His books include Tudor Histories of the English Reformations (1999), Literature and Politics in the English Reformation (2004) and Shakespearean Fantasy and Politics (2005). He is currently working on a study of Sir Thomas More's writing to be published by Notre Dame Press 2012. Professor Betteridge was project leader of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research project Staging the Henrician Court and the Wellcome Trust funded project Medicine, Birth and Death at the Tudor Court.

Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and Head of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, having previously been the University's Masson Professor of English Literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, The English Association and the Society of Antiquaries. Greg's research is primarily focused on the literary and political history of the late medieval period and the sixteenth century, although he has also published on modern popular music and the films of Alexander Korda. He is interested in the history of the stage, and in the cultural consequences of the Henrician Reformation. His most recent books are Writing under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation (OUP, 2005) and The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (OUP, 2010), co-edited with Elaine Treharne.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Betteridge, Thomas/ Walker Betteridge, Greg Walker
• Assisted by: Thomas Betteridge (Editor), Greg Walker (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2012
• EAN: 9780199566471
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956647-1
• No. of pages: 720
• Series: Oxford Handbooks of Literature; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks of Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, DRAMA / Shakespeare, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean