Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; I. Backgrounds; 1. The Mystery Plays; 2. Morality Plays and Allied Forms; 3. The Reformers and the Drama; II. John Bale: the Prophet-Playwright of the Early Reformation; 1. Historical Background; 2. Bale's First Period; 3. Bale's Second Period; III. Other Plays of the Early Reformation Period; 1. Bale's Contemporaries; 2. Godly Queen Hester; IV. English Humanist Drama in Greek and Latin; 1. Thomas Watson's Absalom; 2. Grimald's Christus Redivivus; 3. Grimald's Archipropheta; 4. Christopherson's Jephthe; 5. Foxe's Christus Triumphans; 6. Conclusion; V. Early Elizabethan Biblical Drama
  • 1. Introduction2. King Darius; 3. The Cruel Debtor; 4. The Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene; 5. The Most Virtuous and Godly Susanna; 6. Sapientia Solomonis; 7. Abraham's Sacrifice; 8. The History of Jacob and Esau; 9. Conclusion; VI. Biblical Drama by Shakespeare's Contemporaries; 1. Introduction; 2. A Looking Glass for London and England; 3. David and Bethsaba; 4. Queen Hester and Proud Haman; 5. The Comedy of the Prodigal Son; 6. Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index