Theatre, Drama & Mumming

132 illuminations on 11 folios. Italics indicate sung text.

Promotes and foster greater appreciati on for Spain's classical drama in production . Website includes texts and translatio ns of plays from the Renaissanc e and Baroque periods.

This index is a complete annotated list of all playwrights, actors, patrons, musicians, and miscellaneous other people active in English drama before 1660.

REED is an international scholarly project that is establishing for the first time the broad context from which the great drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries grew.

Scene from a medieval play c.1460 of the martyrdom of St. Apollonia.
Plan of the Lucerne Passion Play, 2nd day, by Renward Cysat, 1583.
Plan of the staging for The Castle of Perseverance, c.1425.
Middle English pageant wagon: Scene of Christ before Pilate.
A reconstruction of a pageant wagon.
Stage used in the Valenciennes Passion Play, 1547.
Rhetoric Stage, Antwerp 1561.
Mummers' Play at Haddon Hall.

Texts of ''The Castle of Perseverance'' and the N-Town Plays.

These two names are used to designate the religious drama which developed among Christian nations at the end of the Middle Ages.

First published in Italian, 1516; revised, 1521 and 1532. This translation is based upon the third revision.

Philip Stubbes started writing around 1581 producing small tracts in which he sharply denounced the manners, pastimes, fashions and culture in England. His major work, The Anatomie of Abuses, was first published in 1583.

P hilip Stubbes had a gift for keen observatio n. Although his comments should not be considered to reveal mainstream thought or opinions of the time, (even his contempora ries thought him extreme) his virulent attacks on the abuses in fashion and English society provide us with a detailed, colorful and picturesqu e glimpse into the England of Shakespear e's youth.

This site provides an edition of Marlowe's works that begins to transcend the limits of print publication and exploit the flexibility of an electronic medium. Included here are all of Marlowe's plays, his two known poetic works, Hero and Leander and The Passionate Shepheard to His Love, his translations of Ovid and Lucan, and the short miscellaneous works attributed to Marlowe, a dedicatory epistle to Mary, the Countess of Pembroke and the epitaph on Sir Roger Manwood.

The 'Players' are a group of actors in the West Kingdom, who got together in the summer/fall of 1991 and have been together ever since.

Ponsonby, 1595.