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Medieval and Tudor Drama: Twenty-Four Plays
Medieval and Tudor Drama: Twenty-Four Plays
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Edited by: John Gassner Publisher: Applause # of Pages: 457 Pub. Date: 2000 ISBN-10: 0936839848 ISBN-13: 9780936839844
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About the Play:
The rich tapestry of medieval belief, morality, and manners,
shines through this comprehensive anthology of the twenty-four major
plays that bridge the dramatic worlds of medieval and Tudor England.
Here are the plays that paved the way to the Renaissance and
Shakespeare. In John Gassner's extensively annotated
collection, the plays regain their timeless appeal and display their
truly international character and influence.
Medieval and Tudor Drama remains the indispensable
chronicle of a dramatic heritage – the classical plays of
Hrotsvitha, folk and ritual drama, the passion play, the great
mortality play Everyman, the Interlude, Tudor comedies Ralph Roister
Doister and Gammer Gurton's Needle, and the most famous of Tudor
tragedies, Gorboduc. John Gassner's introductions and notes
tell a tale of excellence and evolution too easily forgotten. The
texts have been modernized for today's readers and those composed in
Latin have been translated into English.
What people say:
"John Gassner's
comprehensive collection Medieval and Tudor Drama, like no other I
know of, offers the most readable, useful introduction to the drama
of the Middle Ages and Tudor periods." — Errol
Hill,
Dartmouth College
About the Playwright:
John Gassner (1903-1967) was the Sterling Professor of
Playwriting and Dramatic Literature at Yale University. He was a
drama critic, jurist for the Pulitzer Prize, and contributing editor
to numerous publications and was the author or editor of many books
on the theater.
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