Written to honour the distinguished work and career of Alexandra F. Johnston, 'Bring furth the pagants' brings together original essays in early English drama by colleagues and students of the founder and director of the Records of Early English Drama Project.

Editors David N. Klausner and Karen Sawyer Marsalek have grouped the contributions into three primary areas of Johnston's research: the study of documentary records in relation to drama, including new research on the York documents; the interpretation of early English drama, focusing both on the biblical plays and also on the moral interludes, including a broad survey of the role of the Expositor figure in English and French plays; and the drama of the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Marlowe and Shakespeare) from the standpoint of its medieval background.

Diverse, thought-provoking, and original, this collection acts as an important complement to the REED volumes and provides a fitting tribute to the scholar it honours.

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Written to honour the distinguished work and career of Alexandra F. Johnston, 'Bring furth the pagants' brings together original essays in early English drama by colleagues and students of the founder and director of the Records of Early English Drama Project.
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Alexandra Ferguson JohnstonPART ONE: THE RECORDSStar Turns or Small Companies? BARBARA D. PALMER'Young men will do it': Fun, Disorder, and Good Government in York, 1555; Some Thoughts on House Book 21 PETER MEREDITHThe Southwest Entertains: Exeter and Local Performance Patronage SALLY-BETH MACLEANComing Home: Provincial Gentry Families: Their Performers, Their Great Halls, Their Entertainments, and REED ALAN SOMERSETPageantry on London Bridge in the Early Fifteenth Century CAROLINE M. BARRONThe Ordo paginarum Revisited, with a Digital Camera MEG TWYCROSSREED York, Volume 3, The 'Revivals' MARGARET ROGERSONPART TWO: MEDIEVAL PLAYSDoubting Thomas: 'Womans Witnes' and the Towneley Thomas Indie GARRETT P.J. EPPThe Modular Structure of Wisdom DAVID N. KLAUSNEROn Bombshells and Faulty Assumptions: What the Digby Conversion of Saint Paul Really Did with the Acts of the Apostles CHESTER SCOVILLESome Theological Issues in Chester's Plays DAVID MILLSThe Role of the Presenter in Medieval Drama K. JANET RITCHPART THREE: RENAISSANCE PLAYS'Awake your faith': English Resurrection Drama and The Winter's Tale KAREN SAWYER MARSALEKOne Hell of an Ending: Staging Last Judgment in the Towneley Plays and in Doctor Faustus A and B DAVID BEVINGTONA Bibliography of Alexandra F. Johnston's Publications, 1967--2006 ContributorsIndex
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Product details

ISBN
9780802091079
Published
2007
Publisher
Vendor
University of Toronto Press
Weight
648 gr
Height
238 mm
Width
160 mm
Thickness
30 mm
Age
UU, UP, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
277

Biographical note

David N. Klausner is a professor in the Department of English and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.

Karen Sawyer Marsalek is an associate professor in the Department of English at St Olaf College.