Peter Happé, Ph.D. London University (1966) is retired Principal of Barton Peveril Sixth Form College. Among his many books, editions and articles are, most prominently, an edition of the complete plays of John Bale.Wim Hüsken, doctorate University of Nijmegen (1987), taught at the universities of Nijmegen, Melbourne, Cambridge, Hull and Auckland. In 2005 he completed a two volume edition of the complete plays of Cornelis Everaert (c. 1480-1556).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroductionPeter Happé and Wim Hüsken1 From Mrs Noah’s “Rok” to Absalom’s “Kultour”The Trail of the Spinning Woman and the Great Rising of 1381Heather Hill2 Laying with the PastHistory in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and King JohanThomas Betteridge3 Historical Elements in Bale’s PlaysPeter Happé4 History in the Long Shadow of AllegoryRevisiting the Morality HeritagRichard Hillman5 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall … History in Late Medieval Drama from the Low CountriesWim Hüsken6 “An Easy Commerce of the Old and New”Rhetoricians and the Use of the PastElsa Strietman7 Staging Reformation as History – Three Exemplary CasesAgricola, Hartmann, KielmannCora Dietl8 Dramatising History in Schoepper’s Ioannes Decollatus and Grimald’s ArchiprophetaMike Pincombe9 Helvetic Henry? A Swiss Adaptation of Henry V, or Something Near EnoughElisabeth DuttonIndex