Medieval English Drama

Author : Richard Beadle,Alan J. Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Katie Normington
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Greg Walker
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0631217274

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Medieval Drama by Greg Walker Pdf

This anthology of drama in English contains plays from the late 14th century to the onset of the Renaissance. It brings together selections from all the major dramatic genres to provide a sense of the breadth and depth of medieval dramatic activity.

Author : Philip Butterworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107015487

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Staging Conventions in Medieval English Theatre by Philip Butterworth Pdf

Examines staging conventions in the medieval English theatre and ways in which they conditioned the reactions of the audience.

Author : C. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230604995

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The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture by C. Fitzgerald Pdf

This study argues that late medieval English 'mystery plays' were about masculinity as much as Christian theology, modes of devotion, or civic self-consciousness. Performed repeatedly by generations of merchants and craftsmen, these Biblical plays produced fantasies and anxieties of middle class, urban masculinity, many of which are familiar today.

Author : Lawrence M. Clopper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780226110301

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Drama, Play, and Game by Lawrence M. Clopper Pdf

How was it possible for drama, especially biblical representations, to appear in the Christian West given the church's condemnation of the theatrum of the ancient world?In a book with radical implications for the study of medieval literature, Lawrence Clopper resolves this perplexing question. Drama, Play, and Game demonstrates that the theatrum repudiated by medieval clerics was not "theater" as we understand the term today. Clopper contends that critics have misrepresented Western stage history because they have assumed that theatrum designates a place where drama is performed. While theatrum was thought of as a site of spectacle during the Middle Ages, the term was more closely connected with immodest behavior and lurid forms of festive culture. Clerics were not opposed to liturgical representations in churches, but they strove ardently to suppress May games, ludi, festivals, and liturgical parodies. Medieval drama, then, stemmed from a more vernacular tradition than previously acknowledged-one developed by England's laity outside the boundaries of clerical rule.

Author : Sidney E. Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429514678

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Medieval English Drama by Sidney E. Berger Pdf

Originally published in 1990, Medieval English Drama is an exhaustive bibliography of scholarship on medieval English drama. Each item has been annotated in the bibliography with considerable care; these annotations are descriptive rather than critical and give a clear synopsis of the content of each reference, the texts with which it deals, and a brief indication of its critical position. The bibliography is divided into two sections; editions and collections of plays, and critical works. The bibliography is exhaustive rather than selective and provides English annotations for foreign language works, as well as a list of reviews for most books. The book covers liturgical and folk drama, other forms of entertainment, and related material useful to researchers in the field. The book provides an update of sources not listed in Carl J. Stratman's comprehensive Bibliography of Medieval Drama published in 1972.

Author : David Bevington
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 1105 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781624665660

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Medieval Drama by David Bevington Pdf

This reprint (with updated 'Suggestions for Further Reading') of the Houghton Mifflin edition makes David Bevington's classic anthology of medieval drama available again at an affordable price.

Author : Marianne G. Briscoe,John C. Coldewey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015014570785

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Contexts for Early English Drama by Marianne G. Briscoe,John C. Coldewey Pdf

Author : Katie Normington
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1843840278

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Gender and Medieval Drama by Katie Normington Pdf

Evidence from Records of Early English Drama, social, literary and cultural sources are drawn together in order to investigate how performances within the late Middle Ages were both shaped by, and shaped, the public image of women."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Meg Twycross,Sarah Carpenter,Elisabeth Dutton,Gordon L. Kipling
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1843846306

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Medieval English Theatre 43 by Meg Twycross,Sarah Carpenter,Elisabeth Dutton,Gordon L. Kipling Pdf

Author : Christina M. Fitzgerald,John T. Sebastian
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781554810567

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The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama by Christina M. Fitzgerald,John T. Sebastian Pdf

The past generation has been an extraordinarily active one in medieval drama scholarship; our appreciation of the range of medieval drama has been significantly broadened, and our understanding of certain medieval genres—most notably, biblical drama—has been fundamentally altered. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has been widely praised for the degree to which it has taken this scholarship into account in its selection of and presentation of medieval plays. Now Broadview launches a new anthology that takes those plays as its base while expanding very substantially beyond them to represent the full range of drama in English (and, where strong connections exist, in French, Latin, Cornish, and Welsh as well) through to 1576. In all, over forty plays are included. Each work has been fully annotated and is prefaced by a substantial introduction. In many cases the language is to some extent modernized in order to make the plays more accessible to readers today.

Author : Katharine Goodland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351936644

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Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama by Katharine Goodland Pdf

Grieving women in early modern English drama, this study argues, recall not only those of Classical tragedy, but also, and more significantly, the lamenting women of medieval English drama, especially the Virgin Mary. Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster, this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. First, it explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England. Second, the author here brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past. Finally, Goodland addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were viewed as increasingly disturbing after the Reformation. Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama synthesizes and is relevant to several areas of recent scholarly interest, including the performance of gender, the history of emotion, studies of death and mourning, and the cultural trauma of the Reformation.

Author : Philip Butterworth,Katie Normington
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844761

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Medieval Theatre Performance by Philip Butterworth,Katie Normington Pdf

Investigations into the realities of staging dramatic performances, of a variety of kinds, in the middle ages.

Author : Colleen Elaine Donnelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9088903670

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Marys of Medieval Drama by Colleen Elaine Donnelly Pdf

This book contains translations of two Medieval plays featuring Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary.