English Tudor Theatre 1400-1550 Overview
Textbooks on Reserve
Theatre: A history of the art
NW Owens Reserve NWO Resv Theat B006
(4 HOUR LOAN)
This is good for:
Theater and society
Representative plays and dramatists of the time
Chapter 7 English Theatre from the End of the Middle Ages through the Renaissance
Interlude/Tudor School Drama (theater and society/representative plays and dramatists)
History of the theatre / Oscar G. Brockett with Franklin J. Hildy
NW Owens Reserve – B023
This is good for:
Theater and society
Representative plays and dramatists of the time
Chapter 5 English Theatre to 1642
Early Tudor Drama (Representative Plays/Representative Dramatists/Theater and Society)
England 1400-1550 culture and society (Theater and society)
This time period overlaps with the Middle Ages and the Elizabethan period
English drama before Shakespeare / Peter Happé
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 822.09 H252e
Part II – Humanism, Renaissance, and Reformation might be a good place to look.
Tudor drama and politics; a critical approach to topical meaning
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 822.09 B57t
English drama : a cultural history
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 822.09 S54e
Title A companion to Tudor Britain / edited by Robert Tittler and Norman Jones.
Link to Web version:
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AVAILABLE
Contents Establishing the Tudor dynasty / David Grummitt -- The rise of the Tudor state / Joseph S. Block -Elizabethan government and politics / David Dean -- The court / Retha Warnicke -- Law / DeLloyd J. Guth -County government in England / Steve Hindle -- Town and city government / Catherine F. Patterson -Centre and periphery in the Tudor state / Steven G. Ellis -- Politics and government of Scotland / Jenny
Wormald -- Anglo-Scottish relations / Jane E. A. Dawson -- Britain and the wider world / David Potter -Traditional religion / Ben R. McRee -- The dissolutions and their aftermath / Peter Cunich -- Religious
settlements / Norman Jones -- Catholics and recusants / William Sheils -- The Protestant opposition to
Elizabethan religious reform / Peter Iver Kaufman -- The Scottish Reformation / Michael Graham -- Rural
economy and society / R.W. Hoyle -- The urban economy / Alan Dyer -- Metropolitan London / Joseph P.
Ward -- Society and social relations in British provincial towns / Robert Tittler -- Women in the British Isles in
the sixteenth century / Anne Laurence -- Senses of the past in Tudor Britain Daniel Woolf -- Tudor drama,
theatre and society / Alexandra F. Johnston -- Portraiture, politics and society / Robert Tittler -- Architecture,
politics and society / Malcolm Airs -- Music, politics and society / John Milsom -- Science and technology /
Leslie B. Cormack.
Author Singman, Jeffrey L.
Title Daily life in Elizabethan England / Jeffrey L. Singman.
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1 Brief History of Tudor England 1
2 Elizabethan World 9
3 Course of Life 37
4 Cycles of Time 55
5 Living Environment 73
6 Clothing and Accoutrements 93
7 Food and Drink 131
8 Entertainments
Author Singman, Jeffrey L.
Title Daily life in medieval Europe / Jeffrey L. Singman.
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
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General Books on English Theatre and Drama that have at least a chapter or section
on this time period:
English drama : a cultural history / Simon Shepherd and Peter Womack
3rd Floor 822.09 S54e
A history of English drama, 1660-1900/Nicoll, Allardyce
3rd Floor 822.09 N64h
Author Styan, J. L.
Title The English stage : a history of drama and performance / J.L. Styan.
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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1 Medieval drama, secular and religious 1
2 early morality play 40
3 Tudor interlude 60
Core Books on English Tudor Theatre
English drama before Shakespeare / Peter Happé
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 822.09 H252e
Individual Authors section list the dramatist that are known to have worked during the Tudor
period and the plays they wrote. This is the best single book on this topic in Owens Library.
Title A new history of early English drama / edited by John D. Cox and David Scott Kastan ;
foreword by Stephen J. Greenblatt.
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
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1 World Pictures, Modern Periods, and the Early Stage / Margreta de Grazia 7
2 English Church as Theatrical Space / John W. Wasson 25
3 "A Commonty a Christmas gambold or a tumbling trick": Household Theater / Suzanne Westfall
39
4 Universities: Early Staging in Cambridge / Alan H. Nelson 59
Early Staging in Oxford / John R. Elliott, Jr. 68
5 Streets and Markets / Anne Higgins 77
6 Theaters / John Orrell 93
7 "Rowme" of Its Own: Printed Drama in Early Libraries / Heidi Brayman Hackel 113
8 Theater and Religious Culture / Paul Whitfield White 133
9 Wonderfull Spectacles: Theater and Civic Culture / Gordon Kipling 153
10 Theater and Domestic Culture / Diana E. Henderson 173
11 Entertainments at Court / Graham Parry 195
12 Theater and Literary Culture / Barbara A. Mowat 213
13 Theater and Popular Culture / Michael D. Bristol 231
14 Touring / Peter H. Greenfield 251
15 "Cloathes worth all the rest": Costumes and Properties / Jean MacIntyre, Garrett P. J. Epp 269
16 Censorship / Richard Dutton 287
17 Audiences: Investigation, Interpretation, Invention / Ann Jennalie Cook 305
18 Rogues and Rhetoricians: Acting Styles in Early English Drama / Peter Thomson 321
19 Personnel and Professionalization / W. R. Streitberger 337
20 Playwrighting: Authorship and Collaboration / Jeffrey Masten 357
21 Publication of Playbooks / Peter W. M. Blayney 383
22 Patronage and the Economics of Theater / Kathleen E. McLuskie, Felicity Dunsworth 423
23 Revision of Scripts / Eric Rasmussen 441
24 Repertory / Roslyn L. Knutson 461
25 Plays in Manuscript / Paul Werstine 481
An introduction to Tudor drama / by Frederick S. Boas
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 822.2 B66i 1978
Drama in early Tudor Britain, 1485-1558 / Howard B. Norland.
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 822.09 N84d
From Mankind to Marlowe; growth of structure in the popular drama of Tudor England.
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 822.09 B57f
University drama in the Tudor Age, by Frederick S. Boas.
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 822.09 B66u 1966
Tudor and Stuart drama / compiled by Irving Ribner and Clifford Chalmers Huffman.
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 016.82209 R48t 1978
Representative Dramatists and Plays in Literature Resource Center
Nicholas Udall
December, 1504-December, 1556
Name: Nicholas Udall
Nationality: British; English
Genre(s): Comedies (Plays); Translations; Elizabethan drama; Essays; Morality plays; Religious
drama; Poetic drama
Biographical and Critical Essay
Respublica
Ralph Roister Doister
Writings by the Author
Further Readings about the Author
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John Bale
November 21, 1495-1563
Name: John Bale
Nationality: British; English
Genre(s): Autobiographies; Fables; Religious works; Historical drama; Poetry; Mystery plays
(Religious drama); Morality plays; Bibliographies
Biographical and Critical Essay
King John
A Comedy Concerning Three Laws
The Image of Both Churches
Illustrium Majoris Britanniae Scriptorum ... Summarium
The Vocation of John Bale to the Bishopric of Ossory in Ireland
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John Skelton
Name: John Skelton
Nationality: British; English
Genre(s): Satires; Plays; Lyric poetry; Translations; Allegories; Satiric poetry; Political poetry
Biographical and Critical Essay
The Bouge of Court
The Garland of Laurel
"Epitaphs of Two Knaves of Diss"
"Ware the Hawk"
"Philip Sparrow"
"Against Venemous Tongues"
Magnificence
"Speak, Parrot"
"Colin Clout"
"Why Come Ye Not to Court?"
The Tunning of Elinor Rumming
"A Replication Against Certain Young Scholars"
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John Heywood
1497-1580
Name: John Heywood
Nationality: British; English
Genre(s): Narratives; Comedies (Plays) ; Poetry; Epigrams; Songs; Translations; Allegories;
Elizabethan drama
Biographical and Critical Essay
A Dialogue Containing the Number in Effect of All the Proverbs in the English Tongue, Compact in
a Matter Concerning Two Manner of Marriages
Two Hundred Epigrams upon Two Hundred Proverbs, with a Third Hundred Newly Added
The Spider and the Fly
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