...Margaret Connolly [email protected] Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–1500 . By Hannah Bower . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . xii + 259 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 Hannah Bower’s study of later medieval...

... to the antitheatricalist fear of universal efferninization.’ In answer to his title’s question Orgel suggests that the English fear of the power of women’s sexuality contributed to the acceptance of boys playing fernalc roles upon the stage. Although Orgel briefly discusses the homosexual pos- sibilities of cross...

... only fleeting mention of Dickens in a book about the many faces of playfulness. Is Dickens somehow less representative than Char- lotte Yonge, because less arcane? I also found myself wondering what other imaginative writers meant by “play, games, and sport.” When the chastened and disciplined...

...Christopher Braider Abstract Students of seventeenth-century French drama offer oddly truncated readings of Jean Rotrou’s Véritable Saint Genest . Fascinated by the play within a play in which the eponymous saint is converted to a Christian martyr’s faith by performing a Christian martyr’s role...

...Glending Olson Kendrick Laura. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1988. xi + 215 pp. $28.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 REVIEWS Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in lhe “Canterbury Tales.” By LAURAKEN- DKICK...

... study of the “Stern des Bundes,” and for which we are really grateful. AUGUSTCLOSS University of Bristol The Private Life of the Master Race: A Documentary Play. By BERTOLTBRECHT. English version and an essay on Brecht by ERICRUSSELL...

... Tudor Drama, Together m*th a Text of the Play Based on the Black-Letter Original. By KENNETHWALTER CAM- ERON. Raleigh, North Carolina : The Thistle Press, 1941. Pp. 132. $2.75. Gentleness and Nobility 11522-1523). By JOHN HEYWOOD(Origi- nally edited...

...Cecilia Cutts Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 THE CROXTON PLAY: AN ANTI-LOLLARD PIECE By CECILIACUTTS The previous studies which have been made of the Croxton Play .of the Sacrament‘ have concerned...

...Sister Corona Sharp Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 STRINDBERG AND DURRENMATT THE DYNAMICS OF PLAY By SISTERCORONA SHARP The influence of Strindberg on modern drama is well known. His concern...

...O. B. Hardison, JR. A. Kolve V.. Standford: Standford University Press, 1966. viii + 337 pp. $8.50. Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 94 REVIEWS The Play Called Corpus Christi. By V. A. KOLVE. Stanford: Stanford...

... Play. By A. E. ZUCKER.Translated from the Low German of the Fifteenth Century with Introduction and Notes. Records of Civilization Sources and Studies, No. XXXII. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. Pp. x + 134, front. $2.00. The translation into English...

...G. F. Sensabaugh Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ANOTHER PLAY BY JOHN FORD By G. F. SENSABAUGH Professor Alfred Harbage, in a recent disclosure of apparent Restoration pilfering,l assigns to John Ford Sir Robert Howard’s The Great...

... II.” By JAMES L. CALDERWOOD.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1971. 192 pp. $7.50. The rage to discover that plays must not only mean but be, or rather that their meanings must finally (if they are to be approved) die into being, con- tinues unabated. The strategies by which...

...S. D. Stirk Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 GERHART HAUPTMANN’S PLAY “DIE FINSTERNISSE” By S. D. STIRK Gerhart Hauptmann died on June 6, 1946, at the age of eighty-three. All preparations had been made for him to leave his home at Agneten...

...Alvin Kernan Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 JOHN MARSTON’S PLAY HISTRIOMASTIX By ALVINKERNAN The play Histriomastix was published anonymously in 1610, and it was not until 1878 that Richard Simpson notedl that certain pass...

...Arthur Brown Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 A NOTE ON SEBASTIAN WESTCOTT AND THE PLAYS PRESENTED BY THE CHILDREN OF PAUL’S By ARTHURBROWN An article by James Paul Brawner in 1943 discusses some of the plays presented...

...Irving Ribner William Perry. Edited from the original Quartos with Introduction and Notes: Austin: University of Texas Press, 1950. Pp. x + 346. $3.75. Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 REVIEWS ?he Plays of Nathan Field. Edited...

... that will satisfy at least a great majority of Diderot critics. OTIS E. FELLOWS Coltrmbia University Frertch Dramatic Liferatlire in the Reign of Henri IV: A Study of the Extant Plays Conaposed in France Bctzaeen 1589 and 1610. By LANCASTERE...

...John Alvis Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 THE COHERENCE OF SHAKESPEARE’S ROMAN ’ PLAYS By JOHN ALVIS An unfinished task of Shakespearean studies is to account for the place of the Roman plays within...