Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The humanism of acting: John Heywood's The Foure PP
- 2 Wit and Science and the dramaturgy of learning
- 3 Playing against type: Gammer Gurton's Needle
- 4 Time, tyranny, and suspense in political drama of the 1560s
- 5 Humanism and the dramatizing of women
- 6 The confusions of Gallathea: John Lyly as popular dramatist
- 7 Bearing witness to Tamburlaine, Part 1
- 8 Robert Green's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: the commonwealth of the present moment
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The humanism of acting: John Heywood's The Foure PP
- 2 Wit and Science and the dramaturgy of learning
- 3 Playing against type: Gammer Gurton's Needle
- 4 Time, tyranny, and suspense in political drama of the 1560s
- 5 Humanism and the dramatizing of women
- 6 The confusions of Gallathea: John Lyly as popular dramatist
- 7 Bearing witness to Tamburlaine, Part 1
- 8 Robert Green's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: the commonwealth of the present moment
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index
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- Theatre and HumanismEnglish Drama in the Sixteenth Century, pp. 313 - 321Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999