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Author : Phoebe S. Spinrad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:757261966
Author : Phoebe S. Spinrad
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : 9780814204436
Author : G. L. Harriss,Rowena E. Archer,Simon Walker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1852851333
How power was distributed and exercised is a key issue in understanding attitudes and assumptions in late medieval England. The essays in this volume all deal with those who had the power to make political decisions, whether kings, nobles or gentry, courtiers or clergy. While ultimately power rested on force, it was enshrined in the law and more usually exercised by influence and by the dangling of reward. Most disputes were settled without violence, if often with recourse to prolonged struggles in the courts, but those who offended against established interests could be punished severely, as the cases of Sir John Mortimer and of Bishop Reginald Pecock show. These essays, presented to Gerald Harriss, who has done so much to illuminate the history of the period, show not only how power was exercised but also how men of the time thought about it. Contributors: Rowena E. Archer, Christine Carpenter, Jeremy Catto, Rosemary Horrox, R.W. Hoyle, Maurice Keen, Dominic Luckett, Philippa Maddern, S.J. Payling, Edward Powell, Anthony Smith, Simon Walker, Christopher Woolgar, Edmund Wright.
Author : Meg Twycross,Sarah Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351919302
Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century. The authors present a coherent explanation of the many functions of masking, emphasizing the important links among festive practice, specialized ceremonial, and drama. They elucidate the intellectual, moral and social contexts for masking, and they examine the purposes and rewards for participants in the activity. The authors' insight into the masking games and performances of England's medieval and early Tudor periods illuminates many aspects of the thinking and culture of the times: issues of identity and community; performance and role-play; conceptions of the psyche and of the individual's position in social and spiritual structures. Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England presents a broad overview of masking practices, demonstrating how active and prominent an element of medieval and pre-modern culture masking was. It has obvious interest for drama and literature critics of the medieval and early modern periods; but is also useful for historians of culture, theatre and anthropology. Through its analysis of masked play this study engages both with the history of theatre and performance, and with broader cultural and historical questions of social organization, identity and the self, the performance of power, and shifting spiritual understanding.
Author : Thomas L. Berger,William C. Bradford,Sidney L. Sondergard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521621496
A reference book which indexes all the characters who appear in English drama from 1500 to 1660.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110434873
Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death as an existential experience, and this also, of course, in the premodern world. The contributors to the present volume examine the material and spiritual conditions of the culture of death, studying specific buildings and spaces, literary works and art objects, theatrical performances, and medical tracts from the early Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century. Death has always evoked fear, terror, and awe, it has puzzled and troubled people, forcing theologians and philosophers to respond and provide answers for questions that seem to evade real explanations. The more we learn about the culture of death, the more we can comprehend the culture of life. As this volume demonstrates, the approaches to death varied widely, also in the Middle Ages and the early modern age. This volume hence adds a significant number of new facets to the critical examination of this ever-present phenomenon of death, exploring poetic responses to the Black Death, types of execution of a female murderess, death as the springboard for major political changes, and death reflected in morality plays and art.
Author : Philip Booth,Elizabeth Tingle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004443433
This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe from ca.1300-1700.
Author : Joan L Hall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349216529
Jacobean actors fascinated audiences with their convincingly mimetic performances; often they appeared to assume the identities of the fictional characters they impersonated. A similar dynamic emerges in several tragedies of the period, where dramatic characters are frequently changed--for better or worse--by the roles they adopt within the play illusion. This study discusses how certain plays of Jonson and Middleton reveal the destructive consequences of assuming new personae; how three of Shakespeare's tragedies explore the ambivalent results of characters' experimentation with roles; and how Webster and Ford treat role-playing (including ceremonial behavior) creatively, as a vehicle for expressing and consolidating the dramatic self.
Author : Jennifer Woodward
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851157047
English royal funeral ceremony from Mary, Queen of Scots to James I gives fascinating insight into the relationship between power and ritual at the renaissance court.
Author : Kathryn R. McPherson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351912075
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. The essays interrogate how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery and gendered constructions of maternity by analyzing a wealth of historical documents and images in conjunction with dramatic and non-dramatic literary texts. They emphasize that the embodied, repeated and public nature of maternity defines it as inherently performative and ultimately central to the production of gender identity during the early modern period.
Author : S. Newstok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230594784
An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts.
Author : Sidney E. Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429514678
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 : Thomas Meacham
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501513121
This is a truly paradigm-shifting study that reads a key text in Latin Humanist studies as the culmination, rather than an early example, of a tradition in university drama. It persuasively argues against the common assumption that there was no "drama" in the medieval universities until the syllabus was influenced by humanist ideas, and posits a new way of reading the performative dimensions of fourteenth and fifteenth-century university education in, for example, Ciceronian tuition on epistolary delivery. David Bevington calls it "an impressively learned discussion" and commends the sophistication of its use of performativity theory.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004442603
This book combines a scholarly edition of Lydgate’s Dance of Death and the French Danse Macabre poem, and discusses their wider context and historical circumstances of their creation, authorship and visualisation.
Author : Christiana N. Peterson
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506461175
Fear of death is nearly as inevitable as death itself, so we have used modern medicine and the funeral industry to create an ever-increasing distance between us and our mortality. But these interventions have stripped death of its mystery and mysticism. Taking readers on a journey through history, guided by the mystics, Awakened by Death shows us how our psychological and spiritual relationship to death has changed over time, and helps us to reclaim a healthy engagement with our own mortality. Ultimately, readers will gain a deeper understanding of how facing the fear of death, and embracing rather than eschewing its mysteries, can help us live richer, fuller lives.
