Overview

Staging History unites essays by nine specialists in the field of late medieval and early Renaissance drama. Their focus is on English, Dutch and Humanist German drama, as well as on a modern Swiss adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. Featuring prominently in this book are plays by, among others, John Bale, Jacob Schoepper, Johannes Agricola and Jacob Duym. Special attention is also paid to the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and the Dutch abele spelen. So far this topic has not received wide attention within the world of medieval and early Renaissance studies. This exploration aims at arousing more interest in this field by scholars working on European drama from the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance.

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Author:   Peter Happe ,  Wim Husken
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   16
Weight:   0.607kg
ISBN:  

9789004449497

ISBN 10:   9004449493
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   11 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Introduction   Peter Happé and Wim Hüsken 1 From Mrs Noah’s “Rok” to Absalom’s “Kultour”  The Trail of the Spinning Woman and the Great Rising of 1381   Heather Hill 2 Laying with the Past  History in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and King Johan   Thomas Betteridge 3 Historical Elements in Bale’s Plays   Peter Happé 4 History in the Long Shadow of Allegory  Revisiting the Morality Heritag   Richard Hillman 5 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall … History in Late Medieval Drama from the Low Countries   Wim Hüsken 6 “An Easy Commerce of the Old and New”  Rhetoricians and the Use of the Past   Elsa Strietman 7 Staging Reformation as History – Three Exemplary Cases  Agricola, Hartmann, Kielmann   Cora Dietl 8 Dramatising History in Schoepper’s Ioannes Decollatus and Grimald’s Archipropheta   Mike Pincombe 9 Helvetic Henry? A Swiss Adaptation of Henry V, or Something Near Enough   Elisabeth Dutton Index

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Peter Happé, Ph.D. London University (1966) is retired Principal of Barton Peveril Sixth Form College. Among his many books, editions and articles are, most prominently, an edition of the complete plays of John Bale. Wim Hüsken, doctorate University of Nijmegen (1987), taught at the universities of Nijmegen, Melbourne, Cambridge, Hull and Auckland. In 2005 he completed a two volume edition of the complete plays of Cornelis Everaert (c. 1480-1556).

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