John Bale (1495 – 1563) Works: King Johan A propagandist play, first acted on 2nd January, 1539 The Image of Both Churches A Comedy Concerning…
John Rastell (1475 – 1536) Important figure in Tudor drama. Plays: Of gentylnes and nobylyte The nature of the Four Elements Calisto and Melibea The…
Henry Medwall (1462-1502) first known English vernacular dramatist. Wrote morality play Nature Mostly known for Fulgens and Lucrece 1497 (first serviving) secular play in English…
Early Drama Aristotle in his Poetics: Cathersis (Purification), Hamartia (error), Hubris(Pride) Greek Drama: Dionysus, song by dithyrambs, cathersis, satire, deus ex machina. Three important tragic playwrights…
Lecture: William Congreve: The Way of the World
Heading: The Duchess of Malfi
Sir John Mandeville (1300 – 1371) Composed a French book (compilation) on travel between 1357-1371: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville The earliest surviving text…
Chronicles (Verse) Lazanon’s Brut written about 1205 by Lazamon, a monk pf Arley Kings. Alliterative verse with more than 30000 lines. tells the history of…
Old English Prose Most of the Old English prose is the translation from Latin. Historical writings: Anglo-saxon chronicles. Alfred Wessex King, he defeated the Danes and started…
Thomas Delorey (1543-1600) John Lyly (1554-1606) Thomas Lodge Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) Robert Greene (1560-92) Prose Writers Roger Ascham 1515-68 Sir Thomas…