A Companion To The Medieval Theatre

Author : Ronald W. Vince
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989-03-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9798216183853

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Vince has provided a useful and, for the most part, usable reference work. His introduction should be required reading for anyone approaching medieval theater. Choice Scholars increasingly see medieval theatre as a complex and vital performance medium related more closely to political, religious, and social life than to literature as we know it. Reflecting the current interest in performance, A Companion to the Medieval Theatre presents 250 alphabetically arranged entries offering a panoramic view of European and British theatrical productions between the years 900 and 1550. The volume features 30 essays contributed by an international group of specialists and includes many shorter entries as well as systematic cross-referencing, a chronology, a bibliography, and a full complement of indexes. Major entries focus on the theatres of the principal linguistic areas (the British Isles, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, and Eastern Europe), and on dramatic forms and genres such as liturgical drama, Passion and saint plays, morality plays, folk drama, and Humanist drama. Other articles examine costume, acting, pageantry, and music, and explore the theatrical dimension of courtly entertainment, the dance, and the tournament. Short entries supply information on over one hundred playwrights, directors, actors and antiquarians whose contributions to the theatre have been documented. This informative guide brings new depth to our appreciation of the richness and color of medieval public entertainments and the symbolism and pageantry that were a part of daily life in the Middle Ages. Designed to appeal to general reader, this volume is also an attractive choice for libraries serving students and scholars of theatre history, English and European literatures, medieval history, cultural history, drama, and performance.

Author : Ronald W. Vince
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313246470

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A Companion to the Medieval Theatre by Ronald W. Vince Pdf

Vince has provided a useful and, for the most part, usable reference work. His introduction should be required reading for anyone approaching medieval theater. Choice Scholars increasingly see medieval theatre as a complex and vital performance medium related more closely to political, religious, and social life than to literature as we know it. Reflecting the current interest in performance, A Companion to the Medieval Theatre presents 250 alphabetically arranged entries offering a panoramic view of European and British theatrical productions between the years 900 and 1550. The volume features 30 essays contributed by an international group of specialists and includes many shorter entries as well as systematic cross-referencing, a chronology, a bibliography, and a full complement of indexes. Major entries focus on the theatres of the principal linguistic areas (the British Isles, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, and Eastern Europe), and on dramatic forms and genres such as liturgical drama, Passion and saint plays, morality plays, folk drama, and Humanist drama. Other articles examine costume, acting, pageantry, and music, and explore the theatrical dimension of courtly entertainment, the dance, and the tournament. Short entries supply information on over one hundred playwrights, directors, actors and antiquarians whose contributions to the theatre have been documented. This informative guide brings new depth to our appreciation of the richness and color of medieval public entertainments and the symbolism and pageantry that were a part of daily life in the Middle Ages. Designed to appeal to general reader, this volume is also an attractive choice for libraries serving students and scholars of theatre history, English and European literatures, medieval history, cultural history, drama, and performance.

Author : Richard Beadle,Alan J. Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827928

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre by Richard Beadle,Alan J. Fletcher Pdf

The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table.

Author : Pamela King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317043652

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The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance by Pamela King Pdf

The study of early drama has undergone a quiet revolution in the last four decades, radically altering critical approaches to form, genre, and canon. Drawing on disciplines from art history to musicology and reception studies, The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance reconsiders early "drama" as a mixed mode entertainment best studied not only alongside non-dramatic texts, but also other modes of performance. From performance before the playhouse to the afterlife of medieval drama in the contemporary avant-garde, this stunning collection of essays is divided into four sections: Northern European Playing before the Playhouse; Modes of Production and Reception; Reviewing the Anglophone Tradition; The Long Middle Ages Offering a much needed reassessment of what is generally understood as "English medieval drama", The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance provides an invaluable resource for both students and scholars of medieval studies.

Author : Ronald W. Vince
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Theater
ISBN : 0313041830

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Ancient and Medieval Theatre by Ronald W. Vince Pdf

Author : Katie Normington
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780745654867

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Medieval English Drama by Katie Normington Pdf

Medieval English Drama provides a fresh introduction to the dramatic and festive practices of England in the late Middle Ages. The book places particular emphasis on the importance of the performance contexts of these events, bringing to life a period before permanent theatre buildings when performances took place in a wide variety of locations and had to fight to attract and maintain the attention of an audience. Showing the interplay between dramatic and everyday life, the book covers performances in convents, churches, parishes, street processions and parades, and in particular distinguishes between modes of outdoor and indoor performance. Katie Normington aids the reader to a fuller understanding of these early English dramatic practices by explaining the significance of the place of performance, the particularities of spectatorship for each event and how the conventions of the form of drama were manipulated to address its reception. Audiences considered range from cloistered members, congregations and parish members to urban citizens, nobles and royalty. Undergraduate students of literature of this period will find this an approachable and illuminating guide.

Author : Glynne William Gladstone Wickham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987-07-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521312485

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The Medieval Theatre by Glynne William Gladstone Wickham Pdf

This is a thoroughly revised edition of Glynne Wickham's important history of the development of dramatic art in Christian Europe. Professor Wickham surveys the foundations on which this dramatic art was built: the architecture, costumes and ceremonial of the imperial court at Byzantium, the liturgies of countires in the Eastern and Western Empires and the triumph of the Roman rite and the Romanesque style in Western art. Within this context Professor Wickham describes three major influences upon the drama: religion, recreation and commerce. The first produced the liturgical music drama rooted in praise of Christ the King, vernacular Corpus Christi drama, Saint Plays and Moralities centred on the humanity of Christ. The second gave rise to the secular theatres of social recreation based on the games and dances of village communities ad the more sophisticated sex and war games of the nobility. The section on commerce shows how the development of the drama was intimately related to questions of funding and management which led, during the sixteenth century, to the substitution of a professional for an amateur theatre, and to a growing emphasis on stage spectacle. For this third edition the author has added a substantial section on monastic reform and its effect on Biblical translation and the use of allegory; a final chapter charts the transition in different European countries from this medieval Gothic theatre to the neoclassical methods of play construction and representation which flourished for the next two hundred years. The book gorges a coherent pattern through a very large and complicated subject. It is an excellent introduction to medieval theatre for undergraduates and to the growing number of theatregoers who enjoy contemporary revivals of medieval plays. A large plate section gives a pictorial version of the story, using photographs of contemporary manuscript illuminations, mosaics, frescoes, paintings and sculptures.

Author : David Wiles,Christine Dymkowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521766364

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The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History by David Wiles,Christine Dymkowski Pdf

A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.

Author : Glynne Wickham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:490199351

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The Medieval Theatre by Glynne Wickham Pdf

Author : Simon Gaunt,Sarah Kay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827871

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature by Simon Gaunt,Sarah Kay Pdf

Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to literature composed in medieval French from its beginnings in the ninth century until the Renaissance. The essays are grounded in detailed analysis of canonical texts and authors such as the Chanson de Roland, the Roman de la Rose, Villon's Testament, Chrétien de Troyes, Machaut, Christine de Pisan and the Tristan romances. Featuring a chronology and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal companion for students and scholars in other fields wishing to discover the riches of the French medieval tradition.

Author : William Grange
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780761860044

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A Primer in Theatre History by William Grange Pdf

A Primer in Theatre History covers productions, personalities, theories, innovations, and plays from ancient Greece to the Spanish Golden Age. Grange discusses theatre from 534 BC in Athens to 1681 AD in Madrid. The book contains highly informative chapters on theatre culture in the ancient classical world, the medieval period, the Italian Renaissance, classical Asia, German-speaking Europe, France to 1658, and England to 1642. Following a wide-ranging introduction, chapters allow the uninitiated reader straightforward access to well-researched material, often presented in a humorous and approachable fashion. Descriptions of films augment discussions of theatre, while an extended bibliography and comprehensive index assist the reader in making further inquiries. Each chapter features illustrations by Mallory Prucha, a designer and graphic illustrator who has received several awards at theatre conferences around the US. A Primer in Theatre History does not read like a scholarly tome. Its whimsical wrinkles offer readers a more contemporaneous view of theatre than is customary. It employs, for example, frequent references to movies germane to topics and time periods under discussion. Such use of film promotes familiarity among younger readers, who can then appropriate analogies to theatre performance.

Author : Laura Weigert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107040472

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French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater by Laura Weigert Pdf

This book revives the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes.

Author : Gabriella Mazzon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004355583

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Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art by Gabriella Mazzon Pdf

Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art explores the connections between the language of European late-medieval drama and co-temporary themes and motifs in visual communication, focussing on the triggering of emotional reactions in the viewers as a persuasive device.

Author : Eckehard Simon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521385145

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The Theatre of Medieval Europe by Eckehard Simon Pdf

Brings together the work of thirteen internationally recognized scholars of early drama to give a comprehensive account of recent findings in the field.

Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350135314

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A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages by Jody Enders Pdf

Historically and broadly defined as the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages encompass a millennium of cultural conflicts and developments. A large body of mystery, passion, miracle and morality plays cohabited with song, dance, farces and other public spectacles, frequently sharing ecclesiastical and secular inspiration. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre between 500 and 1500, and imaginatively pieces together the puzzle of medieval theatre by foregrounding the study of performance. Each of the ten chapters of this richly illustrated volume takes a different theme as its focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.