RESEARCH IN EARLY TUDOR DRAMA

Abstract

Let me begin with the firm assertion that the Early Tudor Stage as I shall refer to the stage of the period from 1485 to about 1558 is no mere hunting-ground for antiquarianism. First, it is still very much a part of the acting tradition of our theator» Early Tudor plays have always been popular at the Malvern Festivals under Sir Barry Jackson, especially Heywood's Play of the Wether and Udall's Ralph Roister Doister but also Gammer Gurton's