Interludes and early modern society : studies in gender, power and theatricality /
Interludes and early modern society : studies in gender, power and theatricality /
edited by Peter Happé and Wim Hüsken.
- 1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations.
- Ludus, 9 1385-0393 ; .
- Ludus 9. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004357969. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Complicity and Hierarchy: A Tentative Definition of the Interlude Genus / Maidens and Matrons: The Theatricality of Gender in the Tudor Interludes / Skelton’s Magnyfycence: Theatre, Poetry, Influence / Comic Treatment of Tragic Character in Godly Queen Hester / Powerful Obedience: Godly Queen Hester and Katherine of Aragon / Feminine Singularity: The Representation of Young Women in Some Early Tudor Interludes / Wit to Woo: The Wit Interludes / Reforming Sovereignty: John Bale and Tragic Drama / Flytyng in the Face of Convention: Protest and Innovation in Lindsay’s Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis / Working Towards a Reformed Identity in Lindsay’s Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis / The Pammachius Affair at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1545 / Impatient Poverty: The Intertextual Game of Satire / Sound City Jests and Country Pretty Jests: Jack Juggler and Gammer Gurton’s Needle / Legitimacy, Ceremony and Drama: Mary Tudor’s Coronation and Respublica / Staging the Reformation: Power and Theatricality in the Plays of William Wager / Peter Happé -- Jean-Paul Debax -- Lynn Forest-Hill -- Peter Happé -- Mike Pincombe -- Janette Dillon -- Bob Godfrey -- David Mills -- Dermot Cavanagh -- Greg Walker -- John J. McGavin -- Paul Whitfield White -- Roberta Mullini -- Peter Thomson -- Alice Hunt -- David Bevington.
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The essays in this collection, contributed by an internationally distinguished group of scholars, bring up to date many aspects of the criticism of the English Interludes. The development of these plays was a significant part of the history of the growth of English drama in the sixteenth century to the extent that they may be regarded as its main stream. Arising by means of a felicitous combination of the development of printing and the growth of a professional theatre, plays of this type quickly became a forum for the presentation and exploration of many contemporary themes. They became a useful means of disseminating a wide variety of opinions and public concerns as well as exhibiting at times the intellectual brilliance of the Renaissance. The essays here are concentrated upon power, particularly in its religious and political aspects, gender and theatricality. The political and religious upheavals of the Reformation under the Tudor monarchy form a background as well as a focus at times. In particular the position of women in sixteenth-century society is examined in essays on several plays. There is also discussion of the development of theatrical techniques as playwrights worked closely with small acting companies to reach a wide audience ranging from the royal court to the common streets. This was achieved, as a number of essays make clear, through a variety of entertaining theatrical devices.
9789401205894
10.1163/9789401205894 DOI
1500-1599
English drama--History--16th century.
Interludes, English.
English drama.
Interludes, English.
History.
PN2587 / .I58 2007
822.309
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Complicity and Hierarchy: A Tentative Definition of the Interlude Genus / Maidens and Matrons: The Theatricality of Gender in the Tudor Interludes / Skelton’s Magnyfycence: Theatre, Poetry, Influence / Comic Treatment of Tragic Character in Godly Queen Hester / Powerful Obedience: Godly Queen Hester and Katherine of Aragon / Feminine Singularity: The Representation of Young Women in Some Early Tudor Interludes / Wit to Woo: The Wit Interludes / Reforming Sovereignty: John Bale and Tragic Drama / Flytyng in the Face of Convention: Protest and Innovation in Lindsay’s Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis / Working Towards a Reformed Identity in Lindsay’s Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis / The Pammachius Affair at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1545 / Impatient Poverty: The Intertextual Game of Satire / Sound City Jests and Country Pretty Jests: Jack Juggler and Gammer Gurton’s Needle / Legitimacy, Ceremony and Drama: Mary Tudor’s Coronation and Respublica / Staging the Reformation: Power and Theatricality in the Plays of William Wager / Peter Happé -- Jean-Paul Debax -- Lynn Forest-Hill -- Peter Happé -- Mike Pincombe -- Janette Dillon -- Bob Godfrey -- David Mills -- Dermot Cavanagh -- Greg Walker -- John J. McGavin -- Paul Whitfield White -- Roberta Mullini -- Peter Thomson -- Alice Hunt -- David Bevington.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The essays in this collection, contributed by an internationally distinguished group of scholars, bring up to date many aspects of the criticism of the English Interludes. The development of these plays was a significant part of the history of the growth of English drama in the sixteenth century to the extent that they may be regarded as its main stream. Arising by means of a felicitous combination of the development of printing and the growth of a professional theatre, plays of this type quickly became a forum for the presentation and exploration of many contemporary themes. They became a useful means of disseminating a wide variety of opinions and public concerns as well as exhibiting at times the intellectual brilliance of the Renaissance. The essays here are concentrated upon power, particularly in its religious and political aspects, gender and theatricality. The political and religious upheavals of the Reformation under the Tudor monarchy form a background as well as a focus at times. In particular the position of women in sixteenth-century society is examined in essays on several plays. There is also discussion of the development of theatrical techniques as playwrights worked closely with small acting companies to reach a wide audience ranging from the royal court to the common streets. This was achieved, as a number of essays make clear, through a variety of entertaining theatrical devices.
9789401205894
10.1163/9789401205894 DOI
1500-1599
English drama--History--16th century.
Interludes, English.
English drama.
Interludes, English.
History.
PN2587 / .I58 2007
822.309