'Another Country, Another World': English drama, 1371-1558 and the development of the English Reformation

BX Christian Denominations;DA Great Britain;PR English literature

Stafford, Kavan P. ; King, Pamela M.

University:University of Glasgow

Department:School of Critical Studies

关键词: Medieval Drama, early drama, reformation, theology, english literature, medieval literature, King Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, John Bale, John Skelton, Cycle plays, York, kingship.;   

Others  :  http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8031/1/2016StaffordMRES.pdf

来源: University of Glasgow

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First I will show the sources of some of the dramatic changes throughout the late fifteenth and the early sixteenth century and track them through this period of religious and civic turmoil as England goes from Catholic to Protestant and back again in the space of a generation. Second, I shall demonstrate the value of directly comparing medieval texts with Tudor interludes and even later plays, placing each of them in a broader dramatic tradition relative to one another. In short, by examining texts from roughly the period of the English Reformation from its Lollard beginnings to full-fledged Protestantism under Elizabeth, I will make some suggestions as to how and why both changes and continuities in drama throughout these two centuries came about.