Elizabethan Playhouses, Actors, and Audiences An overview of Elizabethan theatre; covers regulation and licensing of plays, objections to playhouses, companies of actors, and composition and ownership of plays.
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The Earliest English Comedies A history of the beginning of English comedy; specifically examines Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister and the anonymous Gammer Gurton's Needle. [eng]
Condemnation of the Elizabethan Theater An examination of attempts by the Church and the London Corporation to shut down the theaters, as well as the royal protection which allowed the theaters to thrive.
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Court Comedies and Masques An analysis of two groups of sixteenth century plays which belonged neither to the democratic, popular class, nor to the pseudo-classical species fostered by the academic circles.
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