Includes bibliographical references (pages 723-724).
Contents:
The York pageant of The fall of the angels (pre 1415-1569) -- Croxton, The play of the sacrament (1470-1530?) -- Fulgens and Lucreece (1490-1500?) / Henry Medwall -- Everyman (1490-1510?) -- The play of the weather (c. 1533) / John Heywood -- Gammer Gurton's needle (1550-1560) / W. Stephenson? -- Respublicus (1553-1554) / Nicholas Udall -- Thyestes (1560) / Jasper Heywood -- Cambises (1560-1570) / Thomas Preston -- Damon and Pythias (1564-1565) / Richard Edwards -- The three ladies of London (1581-1584) / Robert Wilson -- Tamburlaine the great (1587?) / Christopher Marlowe -- Endymion (1588) / John Lyly -- The Spanish tragedy (c. 1587-1592) / Thomas Kyd -- Titus Andronicus (1594?) / William Shakespeare -- The comedy of errors (1589-1594?) / William Shakespeare.
Summary:
This anthology is the sister volume to 'The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama'. It contains sixteen of the most important, innovative, and dramatically exciting plays from the long Tudor century (1485-1603) newly edited in accessible modern spelling from original manuscripts or printed texts. Unlike previous anthologies, which have tended to divide the period by selecting examples of only 'medieval' or 'Renaissance' drama, and so eliding the continuities between the two, this volume gives readers an overview of the whole period. For in reality 'medieval' plays such as the magnificent York mystery cycle and the interludes of John Heywood were being performed through much of the sixteenth century, alongside 'Renaissance' works such as the comedy 'Gammer Gurton's Needle' and Jasper Heywood's English re-imagining of Seneca's tragedy of blood, 'Thyestes'.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.