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Author:   Thomas Betteridge (Professor of English Literature and Drama, Professor of English Literature and Drama, Oxford Brookes University) ,  Greg Walker (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.20cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 24.80cm
Weight:   1.346kg
ISBN:  

9780199566471

ISBN 10:   019956647
Pages:   710
Publication Date:   19 July 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Thomas Betteridge and Greg Walker: 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: Erzsébet 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 Happè: 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 & Agamemnon 32: Alice Hunt: Gorboduc, Thomas Norton & 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

Reviews

stimulating and provocative Lucy Munro, The Times Literary Supplement The book is essential for students of English Renaissance drama and experienced scholars will also find ground-breaking material here. Frank Swannack, Parergon

The book is essential for students of English Renaissance drama and experienced scholars will also find ground-breaking material here. * Frank Swannack, Parergon * stimulating and provocative * Lucy Munro, The Times Literary Supplement * provides an exhaustive overview of a period of Renaissance drama that many of us probably know less about than we'd care to admit. Covering the period from 1485 to 1603, the volume includes thirty-eight essays on religious drama; interludes and comedies; entertainments, masques, and royal entries; and histories and political dramas. * Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *

provides an exhaustive overview of a period of Renaissance drama that many of us probably know less about than we'd care to admit. Covering the period from 1485 to 1603, the volume includes thirty-eight essays on religious drama; interludes and comedies; entertainments, masques, and royal entries; and histories and political dramas. * Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 * stimulating and provocative * Lucy Munro, The Times Literary Supplement * The book is essential for students of English Renaissance drama and experienced scholars will also find ground-breaking material here. * Frank Swannack, Parergon *

This welcome handbook succeeds in bringing to life a diverse range of extraordinary Tudor dramatic works and theatrical forms within their myriad particular contexts as the great majority of the contributors admirably synthesize necessary background and major criticism while seamlessly advancing strong, original arguments. --Renaissance Quarterly

Author Information

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.

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