Staging History
Essays in Late Medieval and Humanist Drama
Published on 11. February 2021
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-90-04-44949-7 (ISBN)
Description
Staging History unites essays by nine specialists in the field of late medieval and early Renaissance drama. Their focus is on English, Dutch and Humanist German drama, as well as on a modern Swiss adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V. Featuring prominently in this book are plays by, among others, John Bale, Jacob Schoepper, Johannes Agricola and Jacob Duym. Special attention is also paid to the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and the Dutch abele spelen.
So far this topic has not received wide attention within the world of medieval and early Renaissance studies. This exploration aims at arousing more interest in this field by scholars working on European drama from the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance.
So far this topic has not received wide attention within the world of medieval and early Renaissance studies. This exploration aims at arousing more interest in this field by scholars working on European drama from the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-44949-7 (9789004449497)
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Persons
Peter Happe, Ph.D. London University (1966) is retired Principal of Barton Peveril Sixth Form College. Among his many books, editions and articles are, most prominently, an edition of the complete plays of John Bale.
Wim Huesken, doctorate University of Nijmegen (1987), taught at the universities of Nijmegen, Melbourne, Cambridge, Hull and Auckland. In 2005 he completed a two volume edition of the complete plays of Cornelis Everaert (c. 1480-1556).
Wim Huesken, doctorate University of Nijmegen (1987), taught at the universities of Nijmegen, Melbourne, Cambridge, Hull and Auckland. In 2005 he completed a two volume edition of the complete plays of Cornelis Everaert (c. 1480-1556).
Content
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
??Peter Happe and Wim Huesken
1?From Mrs Noah's "Rok" to Absalom's "Kultour"
?The Trail of the Spinning Woman and the Great Rising of 1381
??Heather Hill
2?Laying with the Past
?History in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and King Johan
??Thomas Betteridge
3?Historical Elements in Bale's Plays
??Peter Happe
4?History in the Long Shadow of Allegory
?Revisiting the Morality Heritag
??Richard Hillman
5?Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ... History in Late Medieval Drama from the Low Countries
??Wim Huesken
6?"An Easy Commerce of the Old and New"
?Rhetoricians and the Use of the Past
??Elsa Strietman
7?Staging Reformation as History - Three Exemplary Cases
?Agricola, Hartmann, Kielmann
??Cora Dietl
8?Dramatising History in Schoepper's Ioannes Decollatus and Grimald's Archipropheta
??Mike Pincombe
9?Helvetic Henry? A Swiss Adaptation of Henry V, or Something Near Enough
??Elisabeth Dutton
Index
Introduction
??Peter Happe and Wim Huesken
1?From Mrs Noah's "Rok" to Absalom's "Kultour"
?The Trail of the Spinning Woman and the Great Rising of 1381
??Heather Hill
2?Laying with the Past
?History in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and King Johan
??Thomas Betteridge
3?Historical Elements in Bale's Plays
??Peter Happe
4?History in the Long Shadow of Allegory
?Revisiting the Morality Heritag
??Richard Hillman
5?Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ... History in Late Medieval Drama from the Low Countries
??Wim Huesken
6?"An Easy Commerce of the Old and New"
?Rhetoricians and the Use of the Past
??Elsa Strietman
7?Staging Reformation as History - Three Exemplary Cases
?Agricola, Hartmann, Kielmann
??Cora Dietl
8?Dramatising History in Schoepper's Ioannes Decollatus and Grimald's Archipropheta
??Mike Pincombe
9?Helvetic Henry? A Swiss Adaptation of Henry V, or Something Near Enough
??Elisabeth Dutton
Index