Performing Fulgens and Lucres: Henry Medwall and the Tudor Great Hall Play

[...]we know that a similar void takes place at the beginning of the play from A's comments about the merry drinking that the guests engage in, after having "etyn and your fill" (1.2). [...]our view has been complicated by the subplot, which seems completely to dismiss the terms in wh...

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Published in:	Medieval & Renaissance drama in England 2018-01, Vol.31, p.178-203
Main Author:	Baricz, Carla
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1100-1499 Middle English period Adaptations Ambiguity Audience Authors Biographies Criticism and interpretation Drama dramatic conventions Dramatists English Literature entertainments Exegesis & hermeneutics Fulgens and Lucres Households Humanism Literary characters Literary devices Literary influences Literary translation Logic Medwall, Henry Medwall, Henry (fl 1486) Medwall, Henry(ca. 1462-1502) Middle English and Fifteenth Century Morality More, Thomas (1478-1535) Narrative techniques occasional drama palace Performance History Plot (Narrative) Publishing Publishing industry royal court Tudor period
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Summary:	[...]we know that a similar void takes place at the beginning of the play from A's comments about the merry drinking that the guests engage in, after having "etyn and your fill" (1.2). [...]our view has been complicated by the subplot, which seems completely to dismiss the terms in which the play has framed the question. [...]the audience must decide what the measure of virtue is. There is no evidence to tie the elaborate costuming necessary for that entertainment to the production to Fulgens and Lucres. [...]like Medwall's Nature, in which the characters complain of being cold and draw closer to the fire (2.512-15), Fulgens and Lucres likely was performed in the winter, since one of the play servants swears "be thys fyre" (1.1303).
ISSN:	0731-3403