Staging History

Peter Happé, Ph.D. London University (1966) is retired Principal of Barton Peveril Sixth Form College. Among his many books, editions and articles are, most prominently, an edition of the complete plays of John Bale. Wim Hüsken, doctorate University of Nijmegen (1987), taught at the universities of Nijmegen, Melbourne, Cambridge, Hull and Auckland. In 2005 he completed a two volume edition of the complete plays of Cornelis Everaert (c. 1480-1556).

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

  Peter Happé and Wim Hüsken



1 From Mrs Noah’s “Rok” to Absalom’s “Kultour”

 The Trail of the Spinning Woman and the Great Rising of 1381

  Heather Hill



2 Laying with the Past

 History in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and King Johan

  Thomas Betteridge



3 Historical Elements in Bale’s Plays

  Peter Happé



4 History in the Long Shadow of Allegory

 Revisiting the Morality Heritag

  Richard Hillman



5 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall … History in Late Medieval Drama from the Low Countries

  Wim Hüsken



6 “An Easy Commerce of the Old and New”

 Rhetoricians and the Use of the Past

  Elsa Strietman



7 Staging Reformation as History – Three Exemplary Cases

 Agricola, Hartmann, Kielmann

  Cora Dietl



8 Dramatising History in Schoepper’s Ioannes Decollatus and Grimald’s Archipropheta

  Mike Pincombe



9 Helvetic Henry? A Swiss Adaptation of Henry V, or Something Near Enough

  Elisabeth Dutton



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