The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama
Cambridge University Press, 9/10/1998
EAN 9780521563314, ISBN10: 0521563313
Hardcover, 260 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Greg Walker provides a new account of the relationship between politics and drama in the turbulent period from the accession of Henry VIII to the reign of Elizabeth I. Building upon ideas first developed in Plays of Persuasion (1991), he focuses on political drama in both England and Scotland, exploring the complex relationships between politics, court culture and dramatic composition, performance and publication. Through a detailed analysis of one central dramatic form, the interlude or great hall play, and close study of key texts, Walker examines drama produced and adapted for varying conditions of performance: indoor and outdoor, private and public. He examines what happened when the play script was printed and sold commercially as a literary commodity. This interdisciplinary analysis will find a market among Tudor historians as well as students of medieval and Renaissance drama.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Playing by the book
early Tudor drama and the printed text
2. Household drama and the art of good counsel
3. John Heywood and the politics of contentment
4. Acting government
Sir David Lindsay's Ane Satyre of The Thrie Estaitis
5. Dramatic justice at the Marian court
Nicholas Udall's Respublica
6. Strategies of courtship
the marital politics of Gorboduc
Epilogue
Appendices
Index.