These section contains an unedited version of the original website
forum; in which academic debates stimulated by the Hampton Court
production of The Play of the Weather were conducted between August
2009 and March 2010 in order to determine the research agenda for the
final project workshops.
Edited list of posts
- Audience
- The Boy
- characterisation
- Costume
- Courtly Space
- Did the costumes of 'The Play of the Weather' effectively portray character to a modern audience?
- Did the Tudors design sets?
- Dividing the audience into male and female
- Early Tudor set design
- The empty thrones
- The Gentleman
- Gentleman's music
- The Gentlewoman
- Heywood
- Heywood the courtier
- Heywood the Playwright
- Improvisation
- an interesting mixture of types?
- Is there a concealed rhyme in the speech?
- John Heywood's 'The Play of the Weather'
- Jupiter's main theme music
- Jupiter and Absolute Power
- Jupiter and the Text
- Jupiter an ideal early modern monarch?
- KEY QUESTION - Does Merry Report perform his office?
- KEY QUESTION - Does the audience feel sorry for The Ranger?
- KEY QUESTION - Do you feel sympathy for The Boy?
- KEY QUESTION - Is Jupiter's verdict fair?
- KEY QUESTION - Is Merry Report a clown or a courtier?
- KEY QUESTION - Is The Gentleman at home in the court?
- KEY QUESTION - Is The Gentlewoman and Laundress' argument about leisure vs. work?
- KEY QUESTION - Is the opening more of a pageant than an interlude?
- KEY QUESTION - What is the status of The Merchant?
- KEY QUESTION - Which Miller has the best case?
- King as Spectator
- The Laundress - sympathetic or antipathetic?
- Lighting
- The Merchant
- Merchant's music
- Merry Report
- The Millers
- More on Mery Reporte
- Musical Instruments
- "New moon" speech
- New Moon thoughts
- Performance and allusions
- A play performed by boys?
- The Play
- Playing with the audience
- Policing of court space in Tudor drama
- punctuation and the sponge
- The Ranger - a spokesperson for the court?
- Reflections on August 2009 performance - costume, music, lighting and set
- Reflections on August 2009 performance - space, staging and audience
- Reflections on August 2009 performance - text and character
- Revealed through performance
- Seating
- Set
- The set for 'The Play of the Weather'
- Staging space relationships
- Topical significance of the Laundress
- The traverse stage
- Utopia and the court space or the space of court.
- Were the costumes used in the performance of The Play of the Weather historically accurate?
- What difference having Henry VIII there?
- What makes Merry Report a 'Vice'?
- What was your response to the set of 'The Play of the Weather'?
- When Rangers go bad...
- Would King Henry VIII have been in attendance?
