Perhaps "seminal" rather than "early."
Regards,
Jim Kerbaugh
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>Maybe someone with lots of time to kill should work up a comprehensive
>list of such discredited but persistent myths and post it, post it, post
>it (and send to all publishers) until they (the myths not the
>publishers) go away.
>
>No, actually might make a nice topic for a session at Leeds or Zoo:
>Persistent Myths Concerning Early (pre-Restoration) Drama. Actually even
>"early" has a vaguely bothersome feel to it.
>
>Jim Stokes
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anne Lancashire
> Sent: Fri 19/10/2001 09:09
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> Subject: Re: [Fwd: 12c drama]
>
>
>
> What really gets ME are all the anthologies of Renaissance drama
>which insist that
> early 16thC plays are the "primitive beginnings" of English
>theatre. (I've just
> been teaching <The 4PP> this week to a class doing the drama to
>1642--and you will
> be delighted to hear that, I paraphrase the Rabkin and Fraser
>anthology, Heywood is
> writing "primitive comedy" and that "this is where it all
>began.")
>
> Anne Lancashire
>
> Clifford Davidson wrote:
>
> > But still identifying the Towneley plays as "Wakefield plays,"
>which seem
> > misleading in the light of recent research such as Barbara
>Palmer's which
> > identify the collection as a set of plays from the West
>Riding.
> >
> > Some of these things are as hard to eradicate as the popular
>idea that Columbus
> > was the one who discovered the world was not flat.
> >
> > Clifford Davidson
> >
> > Abigail Ann Young wrote:
> >
> > > > Suzanne S Webb wrote:
> > > >
> > > > As a long-time textbook author (though in a different
>field), I know that
> > > > the best way to get things changed is to get in touch with
>the
> > > > developmental editor for the publishers of the big Brit
>Lit anthologies
> > > > like Norton and complain, complain, complain and threaten
>to drop an
> > > > adoption.
> > > >
> > > > The intro to the 2nd Play of the Shepherds in the Longman
>anthology
> > > > (which is the one I use for this very reason) is not as
>offensive as the
> > > > one in Norton. It says in the general intro to medieval
>lit, "The
> > > > fifteenth century sees the flowering of the great dramatic
>"mystery
> > > > cycles," sets of plays on religious themes produced and in
>part performed
> > > > by craft guilds of larger towns in the Midlands and North.
>Included here
> > > > is a brilliant sample, the Second Play of the Shepherds
>from the
> > > > Wakefield Plays. Probably written by clerics, these plays
>are nonetheless
> > > > dense with the preoccupations of contemporary working
>people and enriched
> > > > by implicit analgies between the lives of their actors and
>the biblical
> > > > events they portray."
> > > >
> > > > In the intro to the 2 Shep, it says, "It [medieval drama]
>developed not
> > > > from classical drama, which virtually died out in the
>Middle Ages, but
> > > > from the church liturgy." The rest of the intro to the
>play seems to be
> > > > based in large part on Kolve.
> > > >
> > > > Sue Webb
> > > > Texas Woman's University
> > >
> > > --
> > > Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/Records of Early
>English Drama/
> > > Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario
>Canada M5S 1K9
> > > Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/
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