The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama (Paperback, 1st)

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Playing by the book: early Tudor drama and the printed text; 2. Household drama and the art of good counsel; 3. John Heywood and the politics of contentment; 4. Acting government: Sir David Lindsay's Ane Satyre of The Thrie Estaitis; 5. Dramatic justice at the Marian court: Nicholas Udall's Respublica; 6. Strategies of courtship: the marital politics of Gorboduc; Epilogue; Appendices; Index.