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The Broadview anthology of Tudor drama / general editor: Alan Stewart, Columbia University.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600.
- English drama.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
- English drama--To 1500.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 647 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Peterborough, Ontario, Canada ; Tonawanda, NY : Broadview Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "English drama between the late fifteenth century and the late sixteenth centuries is as diverse as it is engaging; this anthology brings together eighteen of the most interesting and important dramatic works from the period. The plays have been chosen to give a broad view of the drama produced in Tudor England. They testify to the eclectic tastes of sixteenth-century audiences, ranging from morality plays (Mankind, Everyman), to comedies inspired by the Roman plays of Terence and Plautus (Roister Doister), to tragedies inspired by the plays of Seneca (Gorboduc, Cambises). In later plays, morality plots rub shoulders with slapstick comic business (The Longer Thou Livest, Three Ladies of London), and classical gods intervene in the affairs of England's regions (Gallathea). While some of the plays offer pure entertainment; others have a clear political agenda. King Johan is presented as a prototype for English resistance to Rome's Catholicism; Gorboduc's decision to abdicate and divide his kingdom highlights the vexed question of the English succession under a childless queen. Others comment more obliquely at contemporary events. Play of the Four Elements reflects on England's nascent maritime expeditions to the New World, while The Three Ladies of London comments topically on immigrant overcrowding in England's port towns, and the dangers of England's trade in the Mediterranean. And some push the boundaries of what the theatre can do in staging violence (Cambises) and questioning gender roles (Gallathea). Designed for undergraduate use, the anthology includes extensive explanatory annotations and a substantial introduction to each play; spelling and punctuation have been partially modernized in the interests of making the texts more accessible to students. In all this, the anthology follows principles similar to those developed for Christina M. Fitzgerald's and John T. Sebastian's Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama; several of the plays from that anthology are also included here, while the rest have been newly edited for this volume, under the supervision of General Editor Alan Stewart."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Henry Medwall
- Fulgens and Lucres
- The Interlude of Youth
- John Rastell
- Four Elements
- John Skelton
- Magnificence
- John Heywood
- The Play of the Weather
- John Bale
- King Johan
- John Redford
- The Play of Wit and Science
- Nicholas Udall
- Ralph Roister Doister
- Gammer Gurton's Needle
- Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton
- Gorboduc
- Ulpian Fulwell
- Like Will to Like
- William Wager
- The Longer Thou Livest the More Fool Thou Art
- Thomas Preston
- Cambises
- Robert Wilson
- The Three Ladies of London
- John Lyly
- Gallathea
- Robert Greene.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1894 Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Broadview anthology of Tudor drama.
- ISBN:
- 9781554814114
- 1554814111
- OCLC:
- 1224306575
- Publisher Number:
- 99988357134
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