The Oxford anthology of Tudor drama This anthology is the sister volume to The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama. It contains sixteen of the most important innovative and dramatically exciting plays from the long Tudor century (1485 1603) newly edited in accessible modern spelling from original manuscripts or printed texts. Unlike previous anthologies which have tended to divide the period by selecting examples of only medieval or Renaissance drama and so eliding the continuities between the two this volume gives readers an overview of the whole period. For in reality medieval plays such as the magnificent York mystery cycle and the interludes of John Heywood were being performed through much of the sixteenth century alongside Renaissance works such as the comedy Gammer Gurtons Needle and Jasper Heywoods English re imagining of Senecas tragedy of blood Thyestes