Few Elizabethan and Jacobean authors produced as varied a canon as did Anthony Munday. He wrote plays, translated Continental prose romances, produced original prose fiction, apparently wrote ballads ...
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The long career of Anthony Munday almost embarrassingly typifies the profession of letters in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. In an age when literary hackwork enslaved many an embittered poet, Munda...
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In the following essay, Byrne claims that, while he is not regarded by many as a great writer, Munday does provide an interesting life study and his works do merit critical consideration.
Anthony M...
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In the following essay, Bergeron questions the accepted belief by many scholars that Middleton had nothing but contempt for Munday.
Artistic lives have intersected in varied, challenging, and somet...
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In the essay below, Singman considers Munday's depiction of Robin Hood in his Huntington plays, which he claims was not only unprecedented, but one of the most influential interpretations ever ...
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In the following excerpt, Stillinger provides a thorough examination of Munday's Zelauto, assessing the nature of the work and its merit.
Anthony Munday's single original contribution...
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In the following essay, Meagher examines Munday's Robin Hood plays for what they reveal of Elizabethan popular taste.
By the late 1590's, the theatrical entertainment of the London po...
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In the following essay, Bergeron evaluates Munday's role in the development of Jacobean civic pageantry.
Our knowledge of Anthony Munday, especially his contribution to English civic pageant...
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In this essay, Bergeron closely examines Munday's Lord Mayors' Shows and explores their relation to stage plays.
Out of an enormously varied and prolific career it was all but inevita...
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In the following essay, Margeson examines The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington and The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington within the romance tradition.
Recent editions by the Malone Society of...
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In the following essay, Scanlon attempts to demonstrate the underlying coherence of Zelauto, despite its episodic structure.
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According to Stillinger, had Anthony Munday finished Zelauto. The Foun...
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In the essay below, Wolf discusses The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington as a work of mass entertainment.
Studying the “high art” of the English Renaissance through popular works ...
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In the following essay, Levin considers how The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntington and The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntington “explicate the ideology of uncontrolled sexuality as a metapho...
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Anthony Munday
Critical Essay by M. St. Clare Byrne
