Comedy, History & Morality: Three Early Tudor Plays
The History Of European Theatre - A podcast by Philip Rowe - Mondays
Episode 93:The earliest extant plays from the Tudor period include comedies and a historical morality, which give an insight into how theatre developed.A summary of the elements that came together to make Tudor theatre a very special development.Students and Masters become playwrights looking to SenecaNicolas Udal, schoolmaster and writer of the earliest surviving comedyA summary of Ralph Roister DoisterThe problem of the authorship of Gammer Gurton's NeedleA summary of Gammer Gurton's NeedleJohn Bale and the manuscript of King JohanA summary of the plot of King JohanHow King Johan works as a morality play, a history play and a tragedy.Support the podcast at:www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.comwww.ko-fi.com/thoetpwww.patreon.com/thoetpThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
