Interludes and Early Modern Society: Studies in Gender, Power and TheatricalityPeter Happé, Wim N. M. Hüsken Rodopi, 2007 - 380 Seiten The essays in this collection, contributed by an internationally distinguished group of scholars, bring up to date many aspects of the criticism of the English Interludes. The development of these plays was a significant part of the history of the growth of English drama in the sixteenth century to the extent that they may be regarded as its main stream. Arising by means of a felicitous combination of the development of printing and the growth of a professional theatre, plays of this type quickly became a forum for the presentation and exploration of many contemporary themes. They became a useful means of disseminating a wide variety of opinions and public concerns as well as exhibiting at times the intellectual brilliance of the Renaissance.The essays here are concentrated upon power, particularly in its religious and political aspects, gender and theatricality. The political and religious upheavals of the Reformation under the Tudor monarchy form a background as well as a focus at times. In particular the position of women in sixteenth-century society is examined in essays on several plays. There is also discussion of the development of theatrical techniques as playwrights worked closely with small acting companies to reach a wide audience ranging from the royal court to the common streets. This was achieved, as a number of essays make clear, through a variety of entertaining theatrical devices.ContentsPeter HAPPE: IntroductionJean-Paul DEBAX: Complicity and Hierarchy: A Tentative Definition of the Interlude GenusLynn FOREST-HILL: Maidens and Matrons: The Theatricality of Gender in the Tudor InterludesPeter HAPPE: Skelton's Magnyfycence: Theatre, Poetry, InfluenceMike PINCOMBE: Comic Treatment of Tragic Character in Godly Queen Hester Janette DILLON: Powerful Obedience: Godly Queen Hester and Katherine of AragonBob GODFREY: Feminine Singularity: The Representation of Young Women in Some Early Tudor InterludesDavid MILLS: Wit to Woo: The Wit InterludesDermot CAVANAGH: Reforming Sovereignty: John Bale and Tragic DramaGreg WALKER: Flytyng in the Face of Convention: Protest and Innovation in Lindsay's Satyre of the Thrie EstaitisJohn J. MCGAVIN: Working Towards a Reformed Identity in Lindsay's Satyre of the Thrie EstaitisPaul Whitfield WHITE: The Pammachius Affair at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1545Roberta MULLINI: Impatient Poverty: The Intertextual Game of SatirePeter THOMSON: Sound City Jests and Country Pretty Jests: Jack Juggler and Gammer Gurton's NeedleAlice HUNT: Legitimacy, Ceremony and Drama: Mary Tudor's Coronation and RespublicaDavid BEVINGTON: Staging the Reformation: Power and Theatricality in the Plays of William Wager |
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Comic Treatment of Tragic Character | 95 |
Powerful Obedience | 117 |
Feminine Singularity The Representation | 141 |
Wit to Woo The Wit Interludes | 163 |
Reforming Sovereignty | 191 |
Flytyng in the Face of Convention Protest | 211 |
Working Towards a Reformed Identity | 239 |
The Pammachius Affair | 261 |
Impatient Poverty | 291 |
Sound City Jests and Country Pretty Jests | 315 |
Legitimacy Ceremony and Drama | 331 |
Staging the Reformation Power | 353 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Seite 258 - As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Seite 258 - That they all may be one ; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them ; that they may be one, even as we are one...
Seite 258 - And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word ; 21 That they all may be one...
Seite 121 - And when ye had me at the first, I take God to be my judge, I was a true maid without touch of man; and whether it be true or no, I put it to your conscience.
Seite 161 - ... what is really the fault of nature, thinking from the vices of the learned to get their own ignorance esteemed as virtue. On the other hand, if a woman (and this I desire and hope with you as their teacher for all my daughters) to eminent virtue should add an outwork of even moderate skill in literature, I think she will have more real profit than if she had obtained the riches of Croesus and the beauty of Helen.
Seite 121 - I showed you, intending thus to put me from you after this sort? I take God to my judge, I have been to you a true and humble wife, ever conformable to your will and pleasure...
Seite 130 - ... this place [brace. That we may kiss you, and in our arms emHere they kiss. What ask you, lady? and what do you demand? Half our realm is yours if ye command, [dear ! Hester. Noble prince, and our espouse most Since that to ask ye have given me liberty, I beseech your grace, with heart most entire, That it may please you this day to dine with me; Eke my lord Aman I would be glad to see At the same banquet, for to take repast. Assuerus. Call us in Aman that we may go in haste : [your grace ! Aman.
Seite 184 - WILL. So much the rather look you to be sped, Care for no more, but once to come within her, And when you have done, then let another win her. WIT. To come within her, child? what meanest thou by that ? WILL.