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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.

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Author:   David Klausner ,  Karen S. Marsalek
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.648kg
ISBN:  

9780802091079

ISBN 10:   0802091075
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   10 February 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Alexandra Ferguson JohnstonPART ONE: THE RECORDSStar Turns or Small Companies? BARBARA D. PALMER'Young men will do it': Fun, Disorder, and Good Government in York, 1555; Some Thoughts on House Book 21 PETER MEREDITHThe Southwest Entertains: Exeter and Local Performance Patronage SALLY-BETH MACLEANComing Home: Provincial Gentry Families: Their Performers, Their Great Halls, Their Entertainments, and REED ALAN SOMERSETPageantry on London Bridge in the Early Fifteenth Century CAROLINE M. BARRONThe Ordo paginarum Revisited, with a Digital Camera MEG TWYCROSSREED York, Volume 3, The 'Revivals' MARGARET ROGERSONPART TWO: MEDIEVAL PLAYSDoubting Thomas: 'Womans Witnes' and the Towneley Thomas Indie GARRETT P.J. EPPThe Modular Structure of Wisdom DAVID N. KLAUSNEROn Bombshells and Faulty Assumptions: What the Digby Conversion of Saint Paul Really Did with the Acts of the Apostles CHESTER SCOVILLESome Theological Issues in Chester's Plays DAVID MILLSThe Role of the Presenter in Medieval Drama K. JANET RITCHPART THREE: RENAISSANCE PLAYS'Awake your faith': English Resurrection Drama and The Winter's Tale KAREN SAWYER MARSALEKOne Hell of an Ending: Staging Last Judgment in the Towneley Plays and in Doctor Faustus A and B DAVID BEVINGTONA Bibliography of Alexandra F. Johnston's Publications, 1967--2006 ContributorsIndex

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David N. Klausner is a professor in the Department of English and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Karen Sawyer Marsalek is an associate professor in the Department of English at St Olaf College.

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