'Bring furth the pagants': Essays in Early English Drama presented to Alexandra F. Johnston

by David Klausner, Karen S. Marsalek (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802091079
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	02/10/2007
Series:	Studies in Early English Drama , #9
Pages:	335
Product dimensions:	6.29(w) x 9.37(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Alexandra Ferguson Johnston     3
The Records
Star Turns or Small Companies?   Barbara D. Palmer     9
'Young men will do it': Fun, Disorder, and Good Government in York, 1555; Some Thoughts on House Book 21   Peter Meredith     41
The Southwest Entertains: Exeter and Local Performance Patronage   Sally-Beth MacLean     58
Coming Home: Provincial Gentry Families: Their Performers, Their Great Halls, Their Entertainments, and REED   Alan Somerset     77
Pageantry on London Bridge in the Early Fifteenth Century   Caroline M. Barron     91
The Ordo paginarum Revisited, with a Digital Camera   Meg Twycross     105
REED York, Volume 3, The 'Revivals'   Margaret Rogerson     132
Medieval Plays
Doubting Thomas: 'Womans Witnes' and the Towneley Thomas Indie   Garrett P.J. Epp     165
The Modular Structure of Wisdom   David N. Klausner     181
On Bombshells and Faulty Assumptions: What the Digby Conversion of Saint Paul Really Did with the Acts of the Apostles   Chester Scoville     197
Some Theological Issues in Chester's Plays   David Mills     212
The Role of the Presenter in Medieval Drama   K. Janet Ritch     230
Renaissance Plays
'Awake yourfaith': English Resurrection Drama and The Winter's Tale   Karen Sawyer Marsalek     271
One Hell of an Ending: Staging Last Judgment in the Towneley Plays and in Doctor Faustus A and B   David Bevington     292
A Bibliography of Alexandra F. Johnston's Publications, 1967-2006     311
Contributors     319
Index     321