George Peele Edited by David Bevington University of Chicago, USA ASHGATE Contents Acknowledgements vii Series Preface ix Introduction xi PART I LORD MAYOR'S PAGEANTS, COURT ENTERTAINMENTS, OCCASIONAL POEMS 1 A.R. Braunmuller (1983), 'Entertainments for Court and City', George Peele, Boston: Twayne Publishers, pp. 11-29; 135-8. 3 2 Hugh Gazzard (2006), '"Many a Herdsman More Disposde to Morne": Peele, Campion, and the Portugal Expedition of 1589', Review of English Studies, 57, pp. 16-42. 27 PART II THE ARRAIGNMENT OF PARIS 3 Louis Adrian Montrose (1980), 'Gifts and Reasons: The Contexts of Peek's The Araygnement of Paris', English Literary History, 47, pp. 433-61. 57 4 Andrew von Hendy (1968), 'The Triumph of Chastity: Form and Meaning in The Arraignment of Paris', Renaissance Drama, 1, pp. 87-101. 87 5 Hallett Smith (1952), 'Pastoral Poetry: The Vitality and Versatility of a Convention', Elizabethan Poetry: A Study in Conventions, Meaning and Expressions, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 1—11. 103 6 R. Headlam Wells (1983), 'Elizabethan Epideictic Drama: Praise and Blame in the Plays of Peele and Lyly', Cahiers Elizabethans, 23, pp. 15—33. 115 PART III THE OLD WIVES TALE 7 Frank Ardolino (2005), 'The Protestant Context of George Peele's "Pleasant Conceited" Old Wives Tale', Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 18, pp. 146-65. 137 8 John D. Cox (1978), 'Homely Matter and Multiple Plots in Peele's Old Wives Tale', Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 20, pp. 330-46. 157 9 Philip Edwards (1986), '"Seeing is believing": Action and Narration in The Old Wives Tale and The Winter's Tale", in E.A.J. Honigmann (ed.), Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 79-93. 175 10 Mary Ellen Lamb (2002), 'Old Wives' Tales, George Peele, and Narrative Abjection', Critical Survey, 14, pp. 28^t3. 191 George Peele 11 Joan C. Marx (1981), '"Soft, Who Have We Here?": The Dramatic Technique of The Old Wives Tale', Renaissance Drama, 12, pp. 117-43. 207 12 Susan T. Viguers (1981), 'The Hearth and the Cell: Art in The Old Wives Tale', Studies in English Literature, 21, pp. 208-21. 235 PART IV THE BATTLE OF ALCAZAR 13 David Bradley (1992), 'Alcazar. The Text and the Sources', From Text to Performance in the Elizabethan Theatre: Preparing the Play for the Stage, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 127-74; 255-7. 251 14 Peter Hyland (1999), 'Moors, Villainy and The Battle of Alcazar', Par ergon, 16, pp. 85-99. 303 15 Eldred Jones (1965), 'The Battle of Alcazar', Othello's Countrymen: The African in English Renaissance Drama, London: Oxford University Press, pp. 40^19; 136-8. 319 PARTV EDWARD I 16 A.R. Braunmuller (1983), 'EdwardI: In Peace Triumphant, Fortunate in Wars', George Peele, Boston: Twayne Publishers, pp. 87-106. 333 PART VI DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 17 Annaliese Connolly (2007), 'Peele's David and Bethsabe: Reconsidering Biblical Drama of the Long 1590s', Early Modern Literary Studies, 16, pp. 355-76. 355 18 Inga-Stina Ewbank (1965), 'The House of David in Renaissance Drama: A Comparative Study', Renaissance Drama, 8, pp. 3-40. 377 19 Inga-Stina Ewbank (1975), '"What words, what looks, what wonders?": Language and Spectacle in the Theatre of George Peele', in George Hibbard (ed.), Elizabethan Theatre V, Archon: Macmillan of Canada, pp. 124-54. 415 PART VII PEELE AND TITUS ANDRONICUS 20 Brian Boyd (2004), 'Mutius: An Obstacle Removed in Titus Andronicus', The Review of English Studies, 55, pp. 196-209. 449 Name Index 463.