IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1313: The Tudor Interlude: Politics, Polemics, and Heresy
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society |
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Organiser: | David N. Klausner, Centre for Medieval Studies / Department of English, University of Toronto, Downtown |
Moderator/Chair: | David N. Klausner, Centre for Medieval Studies / Department of English, University of Toronto, Downtown |
Paper 1313-a | Travelling Companies and their Privy Council Patrons: What Were They Playing? (Language: English) Index terms: Performance Arts - Drama, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1313-b | Behind the Polemics: Sponsors of Protestant Drama in Tudor London (Language: English) Index terms: Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life |
Abstract | Recent research on English drama of the mid to late 16th century has focused on its close involvement with the political and religious controversies of the period. This session will investigate the use of the interlude as a political and religious tool. |