Introduction

• Politics of Renaissance England
• Religion
• Very basic overview of drama

Plays:

• Kyd, Spanish Tragedy (or use free Kindle edition)
• Marlowe, Dr. Faustus (or use free kindle edition)

Articles:

• All: Bartels, Marlowe

1. Dutton, The Court, The Master of Revels, and The Players
2. Archer, The City of London and the Theater
3. Kathman, Players, Livery Companies, and Apprentices
4. My handout: scansion and rhetoric

Links:

• 1577 Pembroke Simon "Most Strange and Rare ....Conjurer"
• 1595 Giovanni Ciprano "Most strange and Wonderful Prophecy"
• 1592 Gent's "historie of John Faustus"

Plays:

• Sidney, Antony
• Dekker, Shoemaker's Holiday (1599)

Links

• War of the Theaters
• Lord Mayors of London through Elizabeth I
  • 1599 marriage of Eliza Spencer
• Samuel Pepys's Shrove Tuesday diary entry in 1667 or 1668

Articles:

• All: Archer, London and Westminster

1. Kathman, Innyard Playing Spaces; Greenfield, Touring
2. Gurr, Why the Globe is Famous
3. Twyning, City Comedy
4. My handout: 1599

Plays:

• Heywood, A Woman Killed With Kindness (1603)
• Marston, John (and John Webster) The Malcontent (1603) (and an alternate text)

Links

• 1568 Broadside Marget Mere (a servant who "played the naughty packe")
• 1562 Broadside unmarried woman (medical descripton was "insufficient reproductive matter")
• 1566 Broadside child with ruff
• Broadside: deformed pig
• 1609 Broadside: Strange news from Kent (homeless woman)
• 1615 Broadside: another homeless woman

Articles:

1. Burnett, Staging the Malcontent...
2. Knapp, Academic Drama and Smuts, Progresses and Court Entertainments
3. Orlin, Domestic Tragedy

Masques and Entertainments:

• Mulcaster, The Queen Majesty's Passage
• Sidney, Lady of May
• Jonson, Masques of Blackness and Beauty, Masque of Queens, Irish Masque
• Munday, Triumphs of Re-United Britannia

Articles:

1. Westfall, "What Revels"
2. Manley, Civic Drama
3. Findley, Gendering the Stage

Plays:

• Dekker and Middleton, The Roaring Girl
  • audio: Librivox
• Beaumont (and Fletcher?) Knight of the Burning Pestle

Articles: (Note: please log into your WCU email accounts to check for messages)

• handout: Orgel Impersonations

1. Bly, Boy Companies 1599-1613
2. Knutson, Adult playing companies 1593-1603; Rutter, Adult Playing Companies 1603-1613
3. Hirshfield, Issues of Authorship

Plays:

• Middleton, Chaste Maid in Cheapside
• Jonson, Bartholomew Fair

Articles:

• handout: Pugliatti: Beggary and Theater

1. Beier, Social Discourse
2. Carroll, Vagrancy; Ingram, Family and Household
3. Bristol, Custom and Culture; Willis, Witchcraft

Plays:

• Ford, Tis a Pity She's a Whore
• Middleton, The Changeling

Articles:

• Sofer, Properties

1. Ioppolo, Transmission of a Play-text
2. Griffith, Beeston
3. Royce, Early Modern Naturalistic Acting