Author: William StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Gammer Gurton's Needle
Author: William StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Gammer Gurton's Needle
Author: Charles WhitworthPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408143879
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Published in 1575 and acted at Christ's College, Cambridge, probably as early as King Edward VI's reign, the drama of Grandma Gurton and her lost sewing needle, which is finally retrieved from the bottom of her servant Hodge's breeches, is an outstanding example of mid-Tudor comedy. Although a university production, the play's doggerel rhymes, its village characters and their dialect speech, its seemingly innocuous plot and its Rabelaisian humour are the very opposite of academic or neo-classical. Yet its anonymous author's ingenuity manifests itself at every turn, not least in the multiple ironies evoked when Diccon the trickster makes Hodge believe that he will conjure the devil by kissing his backside in a travesty of religious or masonic oath-taking.
Distracted Subjects
Author: Carol Thomas NeelyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801489242
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
'Distracted Subjects' offers a feminist analysis of early modern madness. Carol Neely reveals the mobility & heterogeneity of discourses of 'distraction', the most common term for the condition in late 16th & early 17th century England.
Gammer Gurton's Needle
Author: VariousPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
'Gammer Gurton's Needle' is the second earliest extant English comedy, properly so called. The play is a comedy-farce in five acts, the central idea being the loss by an old dame of her needle, a half-crazy mischief-making wag setting it about that this (at that time of day) precious possession has been stolen by another old woman, the whole village being ultimately set by the ears about the matter. Finally it is found sticking in the breech of Gammer Gurton's man Hodge.
Theatre and Humanism
Author: Kent CartwrightPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139425994
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theatre was censured as emotional and even immoral. How could such a change occur? Kent Cartwright suggests that some theories of early Renaissance theatre - particularly the theory that Elizabethan plays are best seen in the tradition of morality drama - need to be reconsidered. He proposes instead that humanist drama of the sixteenth century is theatrically exciting - rather than literary, elitist and dull as it has often been seen - and socially significant, and he attempts to integrate popular and humanist values rather than setting them against each other. Taking as examples the plays of Marlowe, Heywood, Lyly and Greene, as well as many by lesser-known dramatists, the book demonstrates the contribution of humanist drama to the theatrical vitality of the sixteenth century.
Gammer Gurton's needle. Alexander and Campaspe, by J. Lyly. Tancred and Gismunda, by R. Wilmot. Cornelia, by T. Kyd. Edward the second, by C. Marlow
Author: Robert DodsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A Select Collection of Old Plays: Gammer Gurton's needle
Author: The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama
Author: Christina M. FitzgeraldPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1554810566
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
The past generation has been an extraordinarily active one in medieval drama scholarship; our appreciation of the range of medieval drama has been significantly broadened, and our understanding of certain medieval genres—most notably, biblical drama—has been fundamentally altered. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has been widely praised for the degree to which it has taken this scholarship into account in its selection of and presentation of medieval plays. Now Broadview launches a new anthology that takes those plays as its base while expanding very substantially beyond them to represent the full range of drama in English (and, where strong connections exist, in French, Latin, Cornish, and Welsh as well) through to 1576. In all, over forty plays are included. Each work has been fully annotated and is prefaced by a substantial introduction. In many cases the language is to some extent modernized in order to make the plays more accessible to readers today.
A Select Collection of Old Plays: Gammer Gurton's needle; Alexander and Campaspe; Tancred and Gismunda; Cornelia; Edward II
Author: Robert DodsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A Select Collection of Old Plays: Gammer Gurton's needle ; Tancred & Gismunda
Author: Robert DodsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description