Music and Religious Compromise in John Bale's Plays

• Published in: Comparative drama Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 325 - 349
• Main Author: Brokaw, Katherine Steele
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kalamazoo Comparative Drama, Department of English, Western Michigan University 22.09.2010; Western Michigan University; Comparative Drama; Western Michigan University, Department of English
• Subjects: Anglican churches; Bale, John; Bale, John (English historian); Bible; Catholicism; Church music; Drama; Dramatists; English drama; Infidelity; Morality plays; Music; Music practice; Political dramas; Prose; Protestant churches; Protestantism; Religion; Religious conversion; Religious drama; Religious rituals; Ritual music; Rituals; Sacred music; Sedition; Theater; Theater history; Verse plays; Works; United Kingdom; England; United Kingdom > UK; Ireland; Germany

While King Johan's antimusical stance resembles Bale's prose polemics - "masses, ryngynges, synginges" are "heythynshe wares" in one tract, for example - in his morality drama Three Laws, music is used to restore order to the church, and the biblical God's Promises...