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Gammer Gurton's Needle

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Published in 1575 and acted at Christ's College, Cambridge, probably as early as King Edward VI's reign, the drama of Grandma Gurton and her lost sewing needle, which is finally retrieved from the bottom of her servant Hodge's breeches, is an outstanding example of mid-Tudor comedy. Although a university production, the play's doggerel rhymes, its village characters and their dialect speech, its seemingly innocuous plot and its Rabelaisian humour are the very opposite of academic or neo-classical. Yet its anonymous author's ingenuity manifests itself at every turn, not least in the multiple ironies evoked when Diccon the trickster makes Hodge believe that he will conjure the devil by kissing his backside in a travesty of religious or masonic oath-taking.
Release date NZ
June 30th, 1997
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Edited by Charles Whitworth
Illustrations
c 5 photographs/line drawings
Pages
112
Dimensions
126x198x6
ISBN-13
9780713644975
Product ID
2617354

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