John Rastell and "Gentleness and Nobility"

1917 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 266
Author(s):  
Esther Cloudman Dunn
Keyword(s):  
John Rastell

John Rastell

2015 ◽  
pp. 81-110
Author(s):  
Joseph Ames
Keyword(s):  
John Rastell

Cynicism and Hope

John Heywood ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 61-97
Author(s):  
Greg Walker
Keyword(s):  
Social Reform ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
John Rastell

This chapter offers a new reading of this powerful humanist interlude. It argues for Heywood’s authorship in collaboration with his father-in-law John Rastell, who also printed the play. It reads the play in the context of humanist debates about the injustices of contemporary society, and demonstrates that the epilogue effectively reverses the pessimism about the prospects of enacting thoroughgoing reform that characterizes the latter parts of the play. Setting the play in the context of the fall of Wolsey, the summoning of the Reformation Parliament, and the elevation of More to the chancellorship, it argues that the play was written and revised over the autumn of 1529, reflecting the newfound optimism about social reform generated in those months.

Deux Ouvrages de John Rastell

Moreana ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 29 (Number 109) (1) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
Germain Marc’hadour
Keyword(s):  
John Rastell

A Bibliography of John Rastell

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Daniel T. Lochman ◽  
E. J. Devereux
Keyword(s):  
John Rastell

Origins and Early Years

John Heywood ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Greg Walker
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
John Rastell ◽  
Royal Household

This chapter sketches what is known of Heywood’s early life and career, taking him from Coventry in the early 1500s to the royal household in the 1520s, setting out both what is known about these early years and what is not. It offers close readings of two short interludes which it is suggested were produced for performance within the humanist circle around John Rastell and Thomas More, possibly on Rastell’s newly built domestic stage at his house in Finsbury Fields. It identifies elements of these early plays that would become characteristic of Heywood’s later dramaturgy, with its subtle, innovative approach to audience engagement.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JOHN RASTELL IN EARLY MUSIC PRINTING

The Library ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol s5-XXVI (3) ◽  
pp. 197-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. HYATT KING
Keyword(s):  
Early Music ◽  
Music Printing ◽  
John Rastell
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