Comedy, History & Morality: Three Early Tudor Plays

<p>Episode 93:</p><p>The earliest extant plays from the Tudor period include comedies and a historical morality, which give an insight into how theatre developed.</p><p>A summary of the elements that came together to make Tudor theatre a very special development.</p><p>Students and Masters become playwrights looking to Seneca</p><p>Nicolas Udal, schoolmaster and writer of the earliest surviving comedy</p><p>A summary of Ralph Roister Doister</p><p>The problem of the authorship of Gammer Gurton's Needle</p><p>A summary of Gammer Gurton's Needle</p><p>John Bale and the manuscript of King Johan</p><p>A summary of the plot of King Johan</p><p>How King Johan works as a morality play, a history play and a tragedy.</p><p>Support the podcast at:</p><p>www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com</p><p>www.ko-fi.com/thoetp</p><p>www.patreon.com/thoetp</p><br/><br/>This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: <br/><br/>Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy