HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LETTERS DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Course Instructor Year/Term Class hours Classroom : İED 657/757 Medieval English Drama : Prof.Dr. Burçin Erol : 2011-2012 Fall : Tuesday 13:15-17:00 : Department Seminar Room Aim of the course: is to trace the re-emergence and development of drama in England during the Middle Ages and Tudor period . The miracle, mystery and saints plays , moralities and interludes will be the main concern of the studies. Liturgical drama, folk plays, and various May games and festivities will be dealt with before the in depth study of the mentioned types of plays. The staging, performance, costume,acting-actors, audience and other conventions related to each type will be analysed. The move from liturgical, religious and allegorical plays towards secular, satirical and renaissance drama will be especially emphasized. Course outline: Week I-II Medieval background:social, historical,cultural, and religious conditions Week III-IV Disappearance of drama, rituals, festivals, various performances and entertainment, May games, folk plays Robinhood plays ,liturgical drama development of mystery and miracle plays. Hrotsvitha Dulcitius , Paphnutius The Play of Robin Hood and the Sherif The play of Robin Hood and the Friar Early staging-setting, guilds’performances and cycles in relation to the religious calendar. Week V-VIII Study of the texts in English Mystery Plays, Peter Happe Week IX-XI Morality plays;allegorical representation, roots in other non-dramatic literary works, staging-setting, other aspects of dramatisation Everyman Wisdom Mankind Castle of Perseverance Hickscorner WeekXII-XIV The interludes,changing performance conditions and audience;moral historical,political, satirical characteristics; theinfluence of Protestanism; contribution of the university wits. John Heywood The Four Ps The Play of the Weather Henry Medwall Fulgens and Lucrese John Redford Wit and Science John Bale The Three Laws John Skelton Magnificence NB. Due to circumstances changes may be made in the list of the primary works to be studied Method of instruction: The course will be conducted in lectures, paper presentations and class discussions. The generic and background information will be in lectures. The theoretic material will be supported with visual material. The students will each present papers on the the mystery plays and on one morality play and/or an interlude . Each student will hand in a formal research paper(double spaced,10 pages,MLA format) comparing a mystery play of her/his own choice from three different cycles. The students are expected to come to class having read ALL the primary texts, to do research and secondary reading and to take part in class discussions. Assessment: 20% presentations 20% formal term paper 20% midterm 40% final examination Text book/ Anthologies & collections: B anon. Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays PR1260. E9 1995 B Beadle,Richard York Mystery Plays PR 1261. Y67 1991 B Bevington,David Medieval Drama PR 1260 M4 1975 B Happe, Peter Four Morality Plays PR 1259.M6 F6 1979 B _______. English Mystery Plays 1975 H Purvis,JS The York Cycle of Mystery Plays PR 1260. P978 Y6 BH Rose,Martial The Wakefield Mystery Plays PR643.M8 W147 1969 B Walker, Greg Medieval Drama PR 1260.M43 2000 BH Woolf,Rosemary The English Mystery Plays PR 643. M8 W66 1972 Secondary sources: B Beadle, Richard The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre PN 2587 C36 1994 B Briscoe, Marianne & Contexts for Early English Drama Johne Coldeway ed PR 641 C.761 1987 B Davidson ,Clifford Visualising the Moral Life: Medieval Iconography and the Macro Morality Plays PR 643 M7 D43 1989 B_______. Technology,Guilds and Early English Drama PN2587 D38 1996 B Diller,Hans-Jürgen The Middle English Mystery Play PR643 M8 D578 1992 B Dillon,Janette Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England PR646 D55 1998 B Goodman,Jennifer R British Drama before 1660:A Critical History PR 651 G66 1990 B Happe, Peter English Drama before Shakespeare PR646 H36 1999 B Jack, RDS Patterns of Divine Comedy: A Study of Medieval English Drama PR 643 C67 S3 1987 B Norbund,Howard B Drama in Early Tudor Britain 1485-1558 PR 646 N67 1995 B Pederson,Steven I The Tournament Tradition and the Staging of Castle of Perseverance PR 644 C32 P43 1987 H Prosser,Eleanor Drama and Religion in the English Mystery Plays PR 643 M8 P7 1961 B Ricks, Christopher,ed English Drama to 1710 PR 625. E5 1987 B Richardson, Christine Medieval Drama & Jackie Johnston PR 641. R521 1991 B Riggio, Milla Cozart,ed The Wisdom Symposium PR 644 W58 W57 1986 B Shepherd,Simon& English Drama: A Cultural History Peter Worck PR 625 S54 1996 B Şahinbaş, İrfan İngiliz Tiyatro Tarihi PR 625 S23 1950 v1 c2 B:Bilkent University Library H: Hacettepe University Library(Beytepe) HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LETTERS DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Course Instructor Year/Term Class hours Classroom : İED 657/757 Medieval English Drama : Prof.Dr. Burçin Erol : 2011-2012 Fall : Tuesday 13:00-17:00 : Department Seminar Room Suggested Reading List B Happe,Peter B Walker, Greg English Mystery Plays Medieval Drama Mystery Plays Morality plays Everyman Wisdom Mankind Castle of Perseverance Hickscorner Interludes John Heywood The Four Ps The Play of the Weather Henry Medwall Fulgens and Lucrese John Redford Wit and Science John Bale The Three Laws John Skelton Magnificence Text book/ Anthologies & collections: B anon. Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays PR1260. E9 1995 B Beadle,Richard York Mystery Plays PR 1261. Y67 1991 B Bevington,David Medieval Drama PR 1260 M4 1975 B Happe, Peter Four Morality Plays PR 1259.M6 F6 1979 B _______. English Mystery Plays 1975 H Purvis,JS The York Cycle of Mystery Plays PR 1260. P978 Y6 BH Rose,Martial The Wakefield Mystery Plays PR643.M8 W147 1969 B Walker, Greg Medieval Drama PR 1260.M43 2000 BH Woolf,Rosemary The English Mystery Plays PR 643. M8 W66 1972 Secondary sources: B Beadle, Richard The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre PN 2587 C36 1994 B Briscoe, Marianne & Contexts for Early English Drama Johne Coldeway ed PR 641 C.761 1987 B Davidson ,Clifford Visualising the Moral Life: Medieval Iconography and the Macro Morality Plays PR 643 M7 D43 1989 B_______. Technology,Guilds and Early English Drama PN2587 D38 1996 B Diller,Hans-Jürgen The Middle English Mystery Play PR643 M8 D578 1992 B Dillon,Janette Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England PR646 D55 1998 B Goodman,Jennifer R British Drama before 1660:A Critical History PR 651 G66 1990 B Happe, Peter English Drama before Shakespeare PR646 H36 1999 B Jack, RDS Patterns of Divine Comedy: A Study of Medieval English Drama PR 643 C67 S3 1987 B Norbund,Howard B Drama in Early Tudor Britain 1485-1558 PR 646 N67 1995 B Pederson,Steven I The Tournament Tradition and the Staging of Castle of Perseverance PR 644 C32 P43 1987 H Prosser,Eleanor Drama and Religion in the English Mystery Plays PR 643 M8 P7 1961 B Ricks, Christopher,ed English Drama to 1710 PR 625. E5 1987 B Richardson, Christine Medieval Drama & Jackie Johnston PR 641. R521 1991 B Riggio, Milla Cozart,ed The Wisdom Symposium PR 644 W58 W57 1986 B Shepherd,Simon& English Drama: A Cultural History Peter Worck PR 625 S54 1996 B Şahinbaş, İrfan İngiliz Tiyatro Tarihi PR 625 S23 1950 v1 c2 B:Bilkent University Library H: Hacettepe University Library(Beytepe)