The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama

• Introduction: 'When Lyberte ruled': Tudor Drama 1485 - 1603


• Religious Drama


• 1: Sheila Christie: The Chester Cycle: Creation and Old Testament Plays


• 2: Greg Walker: The York Creation Pageant


• 3: Elisabeth Dutton: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament


• 4: Vincent Gillespie: The Digby Plays - Mary Magdalene and Wisdom


• 5: Andrew Hadfield: Everyman, c.1516


• 6: James Simpson: The Three Laws, John Bale, 1538


• 7: Andreas Hoefele: Christus Triumphans, John Foxe, 1556


• 8: Anna Rhiel: The Conflict of Conscience, 1572


• 9: David Lawton: Dr Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, 1588?


• Interludes and Comedies


• 10: Clare Wright: Fulgens and Lucrece, Henry Medwall, 1497


• 11: Daniel Wakelin: Gentleness and Nobility, John Rastell, c.1529


• 12: Pam King: The Play of the Weather, John Heywood, 1529-33


• 13: Meg Twycross: Wit and Science, John Redford, 1539-47


• 14: John J McGavin: Nice Wanton, 1550


• 15: Jane Griffiths: Lusty Juventus, R. Wever, 1550


• 16: Alan J Fletcher: Gammer Gurton's Needle, W. Stevenson?, 1553


• 17: Jennifer Richards: Damon and Pythias, Richard Edwards, 1564


• 18: Claire Jowitt: The Three Ladies of London, Robert Wilson, 1581


• 19: Leah Scragg: Endymion, John Lyly, 1588


• 20: Alison Findlay: The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare, c. 1592


• 21: Sarah Knight: Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Robert Greene, 1592


• Entertainments, Masques, and Royal Entries


• 22: Sam Wood: The Funeral of Henry VII, 1509


• 23: Tracy Sowerby: The Coronation of Anne Boleyn, Nicholas Udall, 1533


• 24: Kent Rawlinson: Greenwich, 1527, Halle's Chronicle, c.1540


• 25: Erzsébet Stróbl: The Entertainment at Woodstock, George Gascoigne, 1575

Thomas Betteridge is Professor of English Literature and Drama at Oxford Brookes University. His books include Tudor Histories of the English Reformations (1999), Literature and Politics in the English Reformation (2004) and Shakespearean Fantasy and Politics (2005). He is currently working on a study of Sir Thomas More's writing to be published by Notre Dame Press 2012. Professor Betteridge was project leader of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research project Staging the Henrician Court and the Wellcome Trust funded project Medicine, Birth and Death at the Tudor Court.



Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and Head of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, having previously been the University's Masson Professor of English Literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, The English Association and the Society of Antiquaries. Greg's research is primarily focused on the literary and political history of the late medieval period and the sixteenth century, although he has also published on modern popular music and the films of Alexander Korda. He is interested in the history of the stage, and in the cultural consequences of the Henrician Reformation. His most recent books are Writing under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation (OUP, 2005) and The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (OUP, 2010), co-edited with Elaine Treharne.

provides an exhaustive overview of a period of Renaissance drama that many of us probably know less about than we'd care to admit. Covering the period from 1485 to 1603, the volume includes thirty-eight essays on religious drama; interludes and comedies; entertainments, masques, and royal entries; and histories and political dramas. Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900