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Author : Oscar Cargill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015008566344
Author : Christine Schnusenberg
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780809105441
This unique, comprehensive work tackles questions posed by the polemics of the Church Fathers against the Roman theater and explores the subsequent developments of Western liturgical drama as a continuation of the Roman theater up to the time of Amalarius of Metz in the ninth century.
Author : Michael Norton
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580442633
The expression "liturgical drama" was formulated in 1834 as a metaphor and hardened into formal category only later in the nineteenth century. Prior to this invention, the medieval rites and representations that would forge the category were understood as distinct and unrelated classes: as liturgical rites no longer celebrated or as theatrical works of dubious quality. This ground-breaking work examines "liturgical drama" according to the contexts of their presentations within the manuscripts and books that preserve them.
Author : Roger Grainger
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781837642205
Historically speaking, religious ritual and theatre appear to have evolved together. But what is the relationship between catharsis and liturgy? How liturgical is theatre, and how theatrical is liturgy? This book explores the characteristics of liturgical experience - concentration, single mindedness, intentionality, and emotional catharsis.
Author : Richard B. Donovan
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0888440049
Author : Roger Grainger
Publisher : ISBS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1845193067
The Drama of the Rite brings home the dramatic identity of ritual and the religious significance of all kinds of theatre. Historically speaking, religious ritual and theatre appear to have evolved together. But what is the relationship between catharsis and liturgy? How liturgical is theatre and how theatrical is liturgy? Liturgy's purpose is dramatic; like theatre, it is a kinetic medium focusing upon the presence of the other person, whether divine or human. This book explores the characteristics of liturgical experience - concentration, single mindedness, intentionality, emotional catharsis, and, above all, the quality of encounter on which personal environment depends. It is an exploration which leads into the dramatic shape underlying both liturgy and theatre, that of the rite of passage itself. Examples are given of such rites, understood from the point of view of their theatrical nature and purpose. This involves looking at liturgical structure from a point of view which, up to now, has largely been neglected by scholars, although its relevance emerges with striking force, as the drama of the incursion of the divine into human lives. Many have spoken and written of the 'drama of religious ritual' and been content to leave it at that. Roger Grainger takes a clich ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (c) and examines the often misunderstood truth it expresses.
Author : Alan J. Fletcher,Wim N. M. Hüsken
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama, Medieval
ISBN : 9042003952
Between Folk and Liturgy, the title of this collection, should not be understood to refer to some fixed point, some stable place between the two extremes of an illiterate and a literate culture. Rather, the title flags the wide and colourful spectrum of medieval dramatic possibility. Perhaps except one, none of the ten essays published here deal with a drama existing purely at either end of this scale. They add to our impression of the teaming fecundity and hybridism of early European drama, an impression that grows apace once we start to consider dramas situated Between Folk and Liturgy. The geographical terrain that the essays traverse ranges from the British Isles in the west to Poland in the east. The suppleness of the approaches taken here is the minimum critical requirement of anyone wanting to do justice to so complex and multifold a phenomenon as is early European drama.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0341751006
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : O. B. Hardison Jr.
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421430874
Originally published in 1965. The European dramatic tradition rests on a group of religious dramas that appeared between the tenth and twelfth centuries. These dramas, of interest in themselves, are also important for the light they shed on three historical and critical problems: the relation of drama to ritual, the nature of dramatic form, and the development of representational techniques. Hardison's approach is based on the history of the Christian liturgy, on critical theories concerning the kinship of ritual and drama, and on close analysis of the chronology and content of the texts themselves. Beginning with liturgical commentaries of the ninth century, Hardison shows that writers of the period consciously interpreted the Mass and cycle of the church year in dramatic terms. By reconstructing the services themselves, he shows that they had an emphatic dramatic structure that reached its climax with the celebration of the Resurrection. Turning to the history of the Latin Resurrection play, Hardison suggests that the famous Quem quaeritis—the earliest of all medieval dramas—is best understood in relation to the baptismal rites of the Easter Vigil service. He sets forth a theory of the original form and function of the play based on the content of the earliest manuscripts as well as on vestigial ceremonial elements that survive in the later ones. Three texts from the eleventh and twelfth centuries are analyzed with emphasis on the change from ritual to representational modes. Hardison discusses why the form inherited from ritual remained unchanged, while the technique became increasingly representational. In studying the earliest vernacular dramas, Hardison examines the use of nonritual materials as sources of dramatic form, the influence of representational concepts of space and time on staging, and the development of nonceremonial techniques for composition of dialogue. The sudden appearance of these elements in vernacular drama suggests the existence of a hitherto unsuspected vernacular tradition considerably older than the earliest surviving vernacular plays.
Author : Edith Armstrong Wright
Publisher : Slatkine
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Religious drama, French
ISBN : 2051001227
Author : Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786457793
The relationship between the Catholic Church and theatre has a long and complicated history. This collection of fourteen critical essays seeks to demystify the ties--both practical and ideological--that have long bound Catholicism to theatrical production. This volume offers insights into medieval theatre, Jesuit drama, ballet and opera, modern stagings of medieval liturgical drama, Lorca and Lope de Vega as Catholic playwrights, Italian Catholic women's drama, Catholic play-wrighting and acting, and the unique challenges of teaching theatre in Catholic universities.
Author : Leonard Goldstein
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838640044
It has been widely accepted that the 10th-century liturgical plays developed naturally as a religious entity from the Mass. This approach is critiqued in The Origin of Medieval Drama where Leonard Goldstein places the development of the plays within the socio-economic context of the period, most notably the rapid rise of feudalism. Goldstein argues that the plays were a response by the Church to a decline in faith brought on by the burdens of feudalism on the peasantry. However, instead of revitalising faith, the plays which sought to assure the peasantry of their salvation actually represented and therefore reinforced the emerging private property relation. In looking at the origins of ancient Greek drama where scholars have concentrated more on social and cultural issues, Goldstein develops a Marxist model for the origins of medieval drama.
Author : Paul Edward Kretzmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Drama, Medieval
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010327240
Author : M. Bradford Bedingfield
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0851158730
Liturgical rituals of the high festivals from Christmas to Ascension in late Anglo-Saxon England; liturgical practice derived from from vernacular homilies and sermons.
Author : Salvatore Paternò
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015015462115
This book can be read not only by an academic audience but also by a general public for an understanding and appreciation of two bedrocks, drama and liturgy, a twentieth-century culture.
