Author: John Gassner
Publisher: Applause Books
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 501364

Media: Paperback
Edition: third printing
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 462
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.1

ISBN: 0936839848
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.208
UPC: 073999140705
EAN: 9780936839844
ASIN: 0936839848

Publication Date: April 1, 2000
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
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. Mr. 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.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

24 plays in one book! Great selection of medieval/tudor plays September 14, 2008
This one paperback volume includes all of the following:

Classical Heritage:
1. Hrotsvitha: Dulcitius
2. Hrotsvitha: Paphnutius

Pagan Remains:
3. Christmas Mumming (Play of St. George)

Christian Ritual Beginnings:
4. Quem Quaritis Trope
5. Pantomime for Easter Day
6. Easter Resurrection Play
7. Orleans Sepulcher

English Passion Play
8. Creation and Fall of Lucifer
9. Man's Disobedience / Fall of Man
10. First Murder: Murder of Abel
11. Deluge: Noah and His Sons
12. Brome: Abraham and Isaac ]
13. The second shepherd's play
14. Pageant of the Shearmen / Tailors of Coventry
15. Death of Herod
16. Betrayal of Christ
17. Wakefield Crucifixion
18. Resurrection: Harrowing of Hell / Last Judgment

Cornish Passion Play:
19. Cornwell Death of Pilot

Morality Play
20. Everyman

Interlude:
21. John Haywood: Play called the Four PP

Tudor Comedy:
22. Nicholas Udall: Ralph Roister Doister
23. Mr. S: Gammer Gurton's Needle

Tudor Tragedy:
24. Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville: Gorboduc

Bibliography

3 out of 5 stars

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