Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, volume 15

2003 Fairleigh Dickinson University Press hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Volume 15 offers articles devoted to the historical contexts for drama in sixteenth-century England. One of these is a substantial discussion of prostitution in Elizabethan London, based on archival research. Another piece is focused on the efforts of the Chamberlain’s Men to satisfy the tastes of their audiences for political and other topical issues of the day. The volume also contains essays on genre and rhetoric in early modern plays, and on the convention for representing character types on the Renaissance stage (with special reference to the figures of the crone and of the city wife). Further essays concentrate on dramatic authorship, and the publication and printing of plays, and on the connections between Mankind and the fifteenth-century controversy over preaching. The final article is given over to the texts and contexts of newly discovered songs by Aurelian Townshend, intended for an unrecorded 1630s masque by the Merchant Adventurers. An international board of leading scholars and cultural historians maintains the quality of each annual volume so Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England can be relied on as a useful guide and source for all students of the drama of this period - for directors, teachers, and actors as well as for specialists in college and university study. Readers who wish to deepen their understanding of this drama will find in each volume wide-ranging discussions of topics such as music, politics, philosophy, painting, and the questions of material culture, as these matters apply to the interpretation of drama as cultural production before 1642. Contents Mankind and the Fifteenth-Century Preaching Controversy by Lynn Forest-Hill The Theatrical Rhetoric of Edward III by Leslie Thomson Filling Fare: The Appetite for Current Issues and Traditional Forms in the Repertory of the Chamberlain’s Men by Roslyn L. Knutson Dramatic Authorship and Publication in Early Modern England by Douglas A. Brooks Printing Conventions and the Early Modern Play by Paul J. Voss The Crone in English Renaissance Drama by Jeanne Addison Roberts Prostitution in Late Elizabethan London: The Case of Mary Newborough by Gustav Ungerer Leaning Too Hard Upon the Pen: Suburb Wenches and City Wives in Westward Ho by Michelle M. Dowd Songs by Aurelian Townshend, in the Hand of Sir Henry Herbert, for an Unrecorded Masque by the Merchant Adventurers by Peter Beal Reviews Mary Bly, Queer Virgins and Virgin Queens on the Early Modern Stage by Patricia Cahill Martin Butler, ed., Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance by Richard Finkelstein R. P. Draper, Shakespeare: The Comedies by Annette Drew-Bear John Forrest, The History of Morris Dancing, 1458–1750 by Skiles Howard Andrew Gurr and Mariko Ichikawa, Staging in Shakespeare’s Theatres by Roslyn L. Knutson Jay Halio, ed., Henry VIII or All is True by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher by Michael A. Winkelman Grace Ioppolo, ed., Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R. A. Foakes by Arthur F. Kinney Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass, Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory by Jean MacIntyre Joan Pong Linton, The Romance of the New World: Gender and the Literary Formations of English Colonialism by Naomi C. Liebler Kathleen McKluskie and David Bevington, eds., Plays on Women by Alison Findlay Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose, Elizabeth I: Collected Works, and Carole Levin, Debra Barrett-Graves, Jo Eldridge Carney, W. M. Spellman, Gwynne Kennedy, and Stephanie Witham, Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World. A Biographical Dictionary by Marguerite A. Tassi Bruce R. Smith, Shakespeare and Masculinity by Charles R. Forker John Southworth, Shakespeare the Player: A Life in the Theatre by Michael Taylor Frederick Turner, Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century Economics by Scott Cutler Shershow. …