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A Study Guide for Anonymous's "The Second Shepherds' Play"

Author	: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher	: Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date	: 2016
ISBN 10	: 9781410357465
Pages	: 23 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (574 users)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Anonymous's "The Second Shepherds' Play" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Anonymous's "The Second Shepherds' Play," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

The Second Shepherds’ Play In Plain and Simple English

Author	: Anonymous
Publisher	: BookCaps Study Guides
Release Date	: 2014-12-11
ISBN 10	: 9781629174167
Pages	: 100 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (741 users)

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Download or read book The Second Shepherds’ Play In Plain and Simple English written by Anonymous and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wakefield Cycle has several works, but none are quite as famous as "The Second Shepherds' Play". The play is a nativity story that retells the shepherds. The text is present with both the original translation and a modern translation. Please note, this story is also included in the collection “Everyman and Other Old Religious Plays In Plain and Simple English.”

The Second Shepherds' Play

Author	: Clarence Griffin Child
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1910
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015030941614
Pages	: 138 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (53 users)

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Encyclopedia of British Humorists

Author	: Steven H. Gale
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Release Date	: 1996
ISBN 10	: 0824059905
Pages	: 690 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Humorists written by Steven H. Gale and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Radical Comedy in Early Modern England

Author	: Professor Rick Bowers
Publisher	: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date	: 2013-04-28
ISBN 10	: 9781409475019
Pages	: 132 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (75 users)

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Download or read book Radical Comedy in Early Modern England written by Professor Rick Bowers and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the generic and mythic strength of comedy and the theories of Bakhtin, Bergson, and Hobbes, this book identifies the radical nature of early modern English comedy. The satirical comedic actions that shape the "Shepherds' Play," Thomas Dekker's pamphlets, and the comic dramas of Marston, Middleton, and Jonson are all driven, Bowers points out, by an ability to criticize authority, assert plebeian culture, and insist on the complexity and innovation of human discourse. The texts examined (including The Jew of Malta, Metamorphosis of Ajax, Antonio and Mellida, Bartholomew Fair, The Alchemist, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside) simultaneously create and employ standard comedic elements. Farce, absurdity, excess, over-the-top characters, unremitting irony, black humor, toilet humor, and tricksters of all types - such features and more combine to satirize medical, religious, and political authority and to implement necessary social change. Written with a narrative ease, Radical Comedy in Early Modern England shows how comic interventions both describe and reconfigure prevalent authority in its own time while arguing that, through early modern comedy, one can observe the changes in social behavior and understandings characteristic of the Renaissance.

The Manor, the Plowman, and the Shepherd

Author	: Ordelle G. Hill
Publisher	: Susquehanna University Press
Release Date	: 1993
ISBN 10	: 0945636423
Pages	: 257 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (23 users)

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Download or read book The Manor, the Plowman, and the Shepherd written by Ordelle G. Hill and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manor, the Plowman, and the Shepherd is a study of agrarian history and economics that illuminates the literature of England for the late medieval and early Renaissance period (ca. 1300-1600). During the fourteenth century, basic changes in the country resulted from natural and man-made crises: famine, plague, war, and rebellion. As population declined, the manorial institution changed, and the arable farming considered essential for the manor gradually yielded to a more profit-oriented pastoral way of life, a subtle change identified in late thirteenth-century poems such as "The Man in the Moon," "Song of the Husbandman," A Satire of Edward II's England, and Wynnere and Wastoure. One of the most recognizable images of the old way of life, but also representing a troubled force in the new way of life, is the plowman, whose strong spiritual and social associations are central to Piers Plowman and present in the works of writers such as Chaucer, Gower, and the anonymous authors of the Piers Plowman tradition. The agrarian economic conditions of the fifteenth century, which permitted extensive leasing of demesne land to enterprising peasant farmers, give rise to the literary creation of the "new" farmer, a beggar on horseback, a less severe and more humorous type in such works as "John the Reeve," "How the Plowman Learned his Paternoster," "The Turnament of Tottenham," and various short poems. Closely related to the comic farmer is the shepherd, who began to appear particularly in the mystery plays. This is the beginning of a native pastoral tradition that will contribute to the prevailing pastoral literature of the sixteenth century. By the early sixteenth century, the agrarian landscape changed to more pastoral land, more enclosures, and a decrease in (or a rearrangement of) manorial lands. Increased population and an abundance of labor created economic tensions that caused moralizers to cry out for reform, but there is no evidence pastoral lands decreased even by the end of the century. In literature, the plowman tradition continued to exist in such forms as the remarkable sermon by Bishop Latimer, but more often than not it was viewed nostalgically as part of the past, and used to address the problems brought about by the pastoral economy of the sixteenth century. The plowman can be identified even as late as Spenser's Faerie Queene where he assumes the moral associations of the fourteenth-century type, and in Sidney where the plowman becomes the unsympathetic buffoon. But it is the shepherd who becomes the familiar voice of morality (Skelton and Spenser), of love (Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare), and of basic human values (Spenser and Shakespeare).

Popular Culture in the Middle Ages

Author	: Josie P. Campbell
Publisher	: Popular Press
Release Date	: 1986
ISBN 10	: 0879723394
Pages	: 157 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (94 users)

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Download or read book Popular Culture in the Middle Ages written by Josie P. Campbell and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culture of the Middle Ages was as complex, if not as various, as our own, as the essays in this volume ably demonstrate. The essays cover a wide range of tipics, from church sculpture as "advertisement" to tricks and illusions as "homeeconomics."

Early English Drama

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1988
ISBN 10	: OCLC:706675331
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (675 users)

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Download or read book Early English Drama written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the second shepherds' play as it would have been performed in the medieval period as an introduction to the English mystery play, precursor of modern drama.

The Wakefield Second Shepherds Play

Author	: Benn Sowerby
Publisher	: Trafford on Demand Pub
Release Date	: 2010-01
ISBN 10	: 1426911378
Pages	: 48 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (78 users)

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Download or read book The Wakefield Second Shepherds Play written by Benn Sowerby and published by Trafford on Demand Pub. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wakefield Mystery Plays from the Towneley cycle are a series of thirty-two mystery plays which were performed in the town of Wakefield, West Yorkshire from the late Middle Ages till as late as 1576. It is one of only four surviving examples of the English mytsery play cycles.The most notable play in the cycle is The Second Shepherds' Play the unkown author of which is commonly known as the Wakefield Master.

Bibliograpy of Medieval Drama

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Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Release Date	:
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book Bibliograpy of Medieval Drama written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Second Shepherds' Play

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1933
ISBN 10	: OCLC:58935296
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (352 users)

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Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections

Author	: Denise L. Montgomery
Publisher	: Scarecrow Press
Release Date	: 2011-08-11
ISBN 10	: 9780810877214
Pages	: 832 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (772 users)

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Download or read book Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections written by Denise L. Montgomery and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors.

Everyman: Literary Touchstone Classic

Author	:
Publisher	: Prestwick House Inc
Release Date	: 2007
ISBN 10	: 9781580498500
Pages	: 87 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (985 users)

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Jean-Luc Godard's Hail Mary

Author	: Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies Charles Warren
Publisher	: SIU Press
Release Date	: 1993
ISBN 10	: 0809318245
Pages	: 268 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (45 users)

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Download or read book Jean-Luc Godard's Hail Mary written by Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies Charles Warren and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maryel Locke and Charles Warren present twelve original essays by film critics, filmmakers, theologians, and philosophers that examine the 1985 film Hail Mary, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, and its companion film, The Book of Mary, directed by Anne-Marie Miéville. (The films are collectively released under the title Hail Mary.) The interpretative essays offer a rich spectrum of analysis and opinion representing many divergent points of view about critical theory, the status of women, and the value of film as a medium. Locke and Warren also include two important interviews with Godard, brief biographies and complete filmographies of Godard and Miéville, a short breakdown of the two films including the English subtitles, and the script of the French dialogue to complete a remarkably comprehensive treatment of this important film. The only film based on the biblical story of the Virgin Mary, Godard’s Hail Mary is a contemporary Swiss/French representation of Mary’s virgin pregnancy, the birth of her son, and her relationship with Joseph and her young child. Miéville’s companion film is about a young girl named Mary whose parents get a divorce. While neither film is overtly religious, the initial release of Hail Mary brought public protests, court cases, a physical attack on Godard, and condemnation by the Pope.

The Roads from Bethlehem

Author	: Pegram Johnson, III
Publisher	: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date	: 1993-04-15
ISBN 10	: 0664221572
Pages	: 340 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (72 users)

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Download or read book The Roads from Bethlehem written by Pegram Johnson, III and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1993-04-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Christmas literature--a selection of some of the best writings by authors from many times and places, including China, Syria, Egypt, France, Spain, England, Mexico, Canada, and the United States--enables readers to appreciate the dimensions of Jesus' birth. Works of art from the Far East, the Sudan, Russia, Hispanic America, and England underscore the universality of the story of Jesus. Chapters are arranged in chronological order and each is divided into literary genres--liturgy, sermon or treatise, drama, fiction, and poetry. Language in the early English work has been modernized, and several Latin, French, Spanish, and Arabic works are translated and published in English for the first time.

American Gargoyles

Author	: Anthony Di Renzo
Publisher	: SIU Press
Release Date	: 1995
ISBN 10	: 0809320304
Pages	: 250 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book American Gargoyles written by Anthony Di Renzo and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing here on the comic genius of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction, Anthony Di Renzo reveals a dimension of the author’s work that has been overlooked by both her supporters and her detractors, most of whom have heretofore concentrated exclusively on her use of theology and parable. Noting an especial kinship between her characters and the grotesqueries that adorn the margins of illuminated manuscripts and the facades of European cathedrals, he argues that O’Connor’s Gothicism brings her tales closer in spirit to the English mystery cycles and the leering gargoyles of medieval architecture than to the Gothic fiction of Poe and Hawthorne to which critics have so often linked her work. Relying partly on Mikhail Bakhtin’s analysis of Rabelais, Di Renzo examines the different forms of the grotesque in O’Connor’s fiction and the parallels in medieval art, literature, and folklore. He begins by demonstrating that the figure of Christ is the ideal behind her satire—an ideal, however, that must be degraded as well as exalted if it is ever to be a living presence in the physical world. Di Renzo goes on to discuss O’Connor’s unusual treatment of the human body and its relationship to medieval fabliaux. He depicts the interplay between the saintly and the demonic in her work, illustrating how for her good is just as grotesque as evil because it is still "something under construction."

The Second Shepherds' Play in Plain and Simple English

Author	: Anonymous
Publisher	: CreateSpace
Release Date	: 2014-12-11
ISBN 10	: 1505507138
Pages	: 114 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (38 users)

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Download or read book The Second Shepherds' Play in Plain and Simple English written by Anonymous and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wakefield Cycle has several works, but none are quite as famous as "The Second Shepherds' Play". The play is a nativity story that retells the shepherds. The text is present with both the original translation and a modern translation. Please note, this story is also included in the collection "Everyman and Other Old Religious Plays In Plain and Simple English."