Medieval and Tudor Drama: Twenty-Four Plays (Applause Books)

Medieval and Tudor Drama: Twenty-Four Plays (Applause Books) Review

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This one paperback volume includes all of the following:

Classical Heritage:
1. Hrotsvitha: Dulcitius
2. Hrotsvitha: Paphnutius

Pagan Remains:
3. Christmas Mumming (Play of St. George)

Christian Ritual Beginnings:
4. Quem Quaritis Trope
5. Pantomime for Easter Day
6. Easter Resurrection Play
7. Orleans Sepulcher

English Passion Play
8. Creation and Fall of Lucifer
9. Man's Disobedience / Fall of Man
10. First Murder: Murder of Abel
11. Deluge: Noah and His Sons
12. Brome: Abraham and Isaac ]
13. The second shepherd's play
14. Pageant of the Shearmen / Tailors of Coventry
15. Death of Herod
16. Betrayal of Christ
17. Wakefield Crucifixion
18. Resurrection: Harrowing of Hell / Last Judgment

Cornish Passion Play:
19. Cornwell Death of Pilot

Morality Play
20. Everyman

Interlude:
21. John Haywood: Play called the Four PP

Tudor Comedy:
22. Nicholas Udall: Ralph Roister Doister
23. Mr. S: Gammer Gurton's Needle

Tudor Tragedy:
24. Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville: Gorboduc

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Medieval and Tudor Drama: Twenty-Four Plays (Applause Books) Feature

• 462 Pages
• Published by Applause Books
• Softcover

The rich tapestry of medieval belief, morality, and manners, shines through this comprehensive anthology of the twenty-four major plays that bridge the dramatic worlds of medieval and Tudor England. Here are the plays that paved the way to the Renaissance and Shakespeare. In John GassnerÕs extensively annotated collection, the plays regain their timeless appeal and display their truly international character and influence.

Medieval and Tudor Drama remains the indispensable chronicle of a dramatic heritage - the classical plays of Hrotsvitha, folk and ritual drama, the passion play, the great mortality play Everyman, the Interlude, Tudor comedies Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer GurtonÕs Needle, and the most famous of Tudor tragedies, Gorboduc. Mr. GassnerÕs introductions and notes tell a tale of excellence and evolution too easily forgotten. The texts have been modernized for todayÕs readers and those composed in Latin have been translated into English.

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Medieval and Tudor Drama: Twenty-Four Plays was in excellent condition, almost like new.



Jul 06, 2010 18:59:04