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Author : John Bale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780859911740
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Complete Plays of John Bale written by John Bale and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter C. Herman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252063404
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (634 download)
Download or read book Rethinking the Henrician Era written by Peter C. Herman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver Wort
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317319958
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book John Bale and Religious Conversion in Reformation England written by Oliver Wort and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the life and work of the evangelical reformer John Bale (1485–1563), Wort presents a study of conversion in the sixteenth century.
Author : Gretchen E. Minton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400772963
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book John Bale’s 'The Image of Both Churches' written by Gretchen E. Minton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-26 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical edition of John Bale's The Image of Both Churches (c. 1545). The Introduction provides a thorough overview of this sixteenth century work, explaining its relationship to the apocalyptic tradition and to Bale's important inspirations, from Augustine to Erasmus and Luther. Topics such as Bale's language, the place of the Image in his oeuvre, his use of medieval chronicles, and the influence of his exegesis are also discussed. The Image has often been called Bale's most important work; it articulated and developed the English Protestant view of the Apocalypse, influencing other Reformers both in England and on the continent. This book offers the first critical edition of the Image, including fully modernized spelling and punctuation as well as extensive explanatory notes. The five sixteenth-century printed editions of the Image are collated here, with textual notes that illustrate the relationship between variant readings and provide information on the choices made in this particular edition. This book also reproduces the striking woodcut illustrations from the Image in their original placements; examples from two different woodcut series are offered, as well as an overview of the history and importance of these images in the early printed texts. Five appendices, including a glossary of unfamiliar terms and a chart outlining Bale's periodization of history, also provide a wealth of information that enables readers to understand and use this edition. The largest appendix, on historical names and terminology, gives biographical information for 450 individuals and explains their importance, both to Bale and to the sixteenth-century Reformers in a broader context. This critical edition of the Image offers the most thorough study of the work to date, opening up the opportunity for a deeper understanding of this monumental text and for many further avenues of research.
Author : John Heywood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859913195
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Plays of John Heywood written by John Heywood and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series is performing an important service by providing fully annotated editions of Tudor humanists and playwrights in the original Tudor English, with glossaries and listing of textual variants and doubtful readings. COMPARATIVE DRAMA `A first-rate edition that substantially advances the cause of scholarship.' COMPARATIVE DRAMA First complete and fully annotated collection of John Heywood's plays in the original language. It makes possible a reevaluation ofhis remarkable achievement as actor-playwright and an appreciation of his lively contribution to the English language. In all their experimental variety the comedies are seen to have the stamp of an idiosyncratic, theatricalintelligence coupled with a surprising seriousness and Heywood emerges as a resourceful apologist for traditional Catholic doctrine in a time of Reformation. In arguing for a new chronology, the editors suggest that Henry VIII'sservant and entertainer was capable of refreshing irreverence and political daring. Contents: Witty and Witles, Johan Johan, The Pardoner and theFrere, The Foure PP, A Play of Love, The Play of the Wether. Notes.Appendices: Verses from a lost Play of Reason, Translation of . RICHARD AXTON is a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and University lecturer in English. PETER HAPPÉis the former Principal of Barton PeverilSixth-Form College.
Author : Emrys E. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book John Bale's drama God's promises written by Emrys E. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Fairfield
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597526649
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book John Bale, Mythmaker for the English Reformation written by Leslie Fairfield and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bale (1495 - 1563) made a strong impact on the growth of English Protestant self-consciousness in the sixteenth century. He spent twenty years as a Carmelite friar, and then converted to Protestantism in the mid-1530s. Henry VIII's government enlisted Bale to write and produce plays against the Papacy; he had a decisive influence on John Foxe, and Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' (1563); and Bale's drama 'Kynge Johan' was an important link between the medieval mystery plays and the age of Shakespeare. His greatest achievement, however, was his re-telling of English history in light of the Reformation. Bale argued that England had a divine vocation to protect and defend Protestantism against Roman political subversion and non-Biblical religion. Bale's story of England as the Ònew Israel shaped the self-consciousness of the Elizabethan age, and via John Winthrop and New England in 1630 bequeathed a sense of national vocation to America as well.
Author : John Bale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book King Johan written by John Bale and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Ravelhofer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230593267
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book English Historical Drama, 1500-1660 written by Barbara Ravelhofer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many readers today associate the early modern history play with Shakespeare. While not wishing to ignore the influence of Shakespeare, this collection of essays explores other historical drama between 1500 and 1660, covering a wide range of different formats. An introduction provides a survey of current criticism, exploring both early modern and contemporary definitions of the 'history play'. Individual essays in chronological order discuss a wide variety of possible sources for historical drama, ranging from oral traditions to chronicles. They also explore genres outside the canon which think of 'history' in different ways, such as shows, moralities and closet drama.
Author : John Bale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kynge Johan written by John Bale and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Beckwith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226041336
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Signifying God written by Sarah Beckwith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Signifying God, Sarah Beckwith explores the most lavish, long-lasting, and complex form of collective theatrical enterprise in English history: the York Corpus Christi plays. First staged as early as 1376, the plays were performed annually until the late 1500s and involved as much as a tenth of the city in multiple performances at a dozen or more locations. Introducing a radical new understanding of these plays as "sacramental theater," Beckwith shows how organizing the plays served as a political mechanism for regulating labor, and how theater and sacrament combined in them to do important theological work. She argues, for instance, that the theology of Corpus Christi in the resurrection plays can only be understood as a theatrical exploration of eucharistic absence and presence. Beckwith frames her study with discussions of twentieth-century manifestations of sacramental theater in Barry Unsworth's novel Morality Play and Denys Arcand's film Jesus of Montreal, and the connections between contemporary revivals of the York Corpus Christi plays and England's heritage culture.
Author : Thomas Betteridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019956647X
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama written by Thomas Betteridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.
Author : D. Cavanagh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230005837
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play written by D. Cavanagh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play examines a key preoccupation of historical drama in the period 1538-1600: the threat presented by uncivil language. 'Unlicensed' speech informs the presentation of political debate in Tudor history plays and it is also the subject of their most daring political speculations. By analyzing plays by John Bale, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville, and Robert Greene, as well as Shakespeare, this study also argues for a more inclusive approach to the genre.
Author : Peter Happé
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900433369X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays written by Peter Happé and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays is centred upon the five extant English mystery cycles with a view to examining the cyclic form they share. It is based upon consideration of the differences between the texts and upon the underlying assumptions governing this dramatic form. The cycles are extensively compared with practices in the cyclic dramas of France, the German-speaking areas, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain in the late middle ages and the early modern period. There is also a unique and innovative bridging with iconographical material from a range of artistic modes giving further insight into the structure and organisation of cyclic form. Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays should be of interest to undergraduate students and to more experienced researchers in the early drama and the study of visual images and artefacts.
Author : Pamela King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317043650
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance written by Pamela King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of early drama has undergone a quiet revolution in the last four decades, radically altering critical approaches to form, genre, and canon. Drawing on disciplines from art history to musicology and reception studies, The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance reconsiders early "drama" as a mixed mode entertainment best studied not only alongside non-dramatic texts, but also other modes of performance. From performance before the playhouse to the afterlife of medieval drama in the contemporary avant-garde, this stunning collection of essays is divided into four sections: Northern European Playing before the Playhouse; Modes of Production and Reception; Reviewing the Anglophone Tradition; The Long Middle Ages Offering a much needed reassessment of what is generally understood as "English medieval drama", The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance provides an invaluable resource for both students and scholars of medieval studies.
Author : Tison Pugh
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487538871
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book On the Queerness of Early English Drama written by Tison Pugh and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often viewed as theologically conservative, many theatrical works of late medieval and early Tudor England nevertheless exploited the performative nature of drama to flirt with unsanctioned expressions of desire, allowing queer identities and themes to emerge. Early plays faced vexing challenges in depicting sexuality, but modes of queerness, including queer scopophilia, queer dialogue, queer characters, and queer performances, fractured prevailing restraints. Many of these plays were produced within male homosocial environments, and thus homosociality served as a narrative precondition of their storylines. Building from these foundations, On the Queerness of Early English Drama investigates occluded depictions of sexuality in late medieval and early Tudor dramas. Tison Pugh explores a range of topics, including the unstable genders of the York Corpus Christi Plays, the morally instructive humour of excremental allegory in Mankind, the confused relationship of sodomy and chastity in John Bale’s historical interludes, and the camp artifice and queer carnival of Sir David Lyndsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis. Pugh concludes with Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi, pondering the afterlife of medieval drama and its continued utility in probing cultural constructions of gender and sexuality
Author : Sylvia Stoler Wagonheim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134676417
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book The Annals of English Drama 975-1700 written by Sylvia Stoler Wagonheim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analytical record of all plays, extinct or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles and dramatic companies.
