Cumberland, Westmorland, Gloucestershire

Cumberland, Westmorland, Gloucestershire
Author: Audrey W. Douglas
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 570
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780802056696

The Records of Early English Drama volumes make available historical transcripts that provide evidence of early English drama, music, ceremonial dance, and other forms of communal public entertainment in Britain from the Middle Ages to 1642, when the Puritans closed the London theatres.

Bristol

Bristol
Author: Mark Cartwright Pilkinton
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780802042217

A complete edition of primary sources concerning dramatic and musical performance in Bristol from the Middle Ages until the time of Oliver Cromwell.

Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama

Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama
Author: Elza C. Tiner
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0802090826

Since the appearance of the first volume in 1979, the Records of Early English Drama (REED) series has made available an accurate and useable transcription of all surviving documentary evidence of dramatic, ceremonial, and minstrel activity in Great Britain up to the closing of the theatres in 1642. Although they are immensely valuable to scholars, the REED volumes sometimes prove difficult for students to use without considerable assistance. With this book, Elza Tiner aims to make the records accessible for classroom use. The contributors to the volume describe the various ways in which students can learn from working with these documents. Divided into five sections, the volume illustrates how specific disciplines can use the Records to provide resources for students including ways to teach the historical documents of early English drama, training students in acting and producing, historical contexts for the interpretation of literature, as well as the study of local history, women's studies, and historical linguistics. As a practical and much needed companion to the REED volumes, Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama will prove invaluable to both students and teachers of Medieval English Drama.

Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration in Gloucestershire, 1640-1672

Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration in Gloucestershire, 1640-1672
Author: Andrew Richard Warmington
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780861932368

Recent studies of particular areas during the Civil War have shown how kinship and social and educational ties, far from reinforcing county isolationism, frequently drew inhabitants into a far wider network and divided existing loyalties. Following this approach, Dr Warmington's examination of the history of Gloucestershire during the period begins with the descent into war between 1640 and 1642, showing how the two sides formed and why the Parliamentarians had the more durable war machine. He goes on to consider the anarchic situation between 1645 and 1649 and the series of new experiments in government which followed until 1660, undertaken by an almost entirely new governing group of minor gentlemen, elevated through military service to the regime and by religious affiliations. The attempted rebellion of 1659 is examined in detail, and the book concludes with a look at the Restoration of the Stuart dynasty, the Anglican Church, and the sons of the pre-war county ruling elite, exploring how the new regime compared with its Cromwellian predecessors.ANDREW WARMINGTONwas formerly senior research assistant in history at the University of Durham, following a First Class degree from York and a D.Phil. from St Peter's College, Oxford. He is now a freelance research analyst.

European Theatre Performance Practice, 1400-1580

European Theatre Performance Practice, 1400-1580
Author: Philip Butterworth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1351938355

This volume brings together important records of medieval theatre practice between 1400 and 1580. The records are drawn from a wide range of spheres including civic, ecclesiastical, trade and guild records and consist of payments for materials, techniques and services; also included are some eye witness accounts. Alongside these records is a selection of the best contemporary research conducted into medieval performance practice, which features ground-breaking analysis and challenges current understanding, knowledge and authority in this field. These contributions of rigorous scholarship complement and support the work of the well-known Records of Early English Drama project and help to further illuminate contemporary fifteenth and early sixteenth-century theatre performance practice.

Leicester's Men and their Plays

Leicester's Men and their Plays
Author: Laurie Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2023-09-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009366491

The first full history of the first great Elizabethan play company, responsible for developing the main features of Shakespearean theatre.

Staging Conventions in Medieval English Theatre

Staging Conventions in Medieval English Theatre
Author: Philip Butterworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2014-06-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139991949

How was medieval English theatre performed? Many of the modern theatrical concepts and terms used today to discuss the nature of medieval English theatre were never used in medieval times. Concepts and terms such as character, characterisation, truth and belief, costume, acting style, amateur, professional, stage directions, effects and special effects are all examples of post-medieval terms that have been applied to the English theatre. Little has been written about staging conventions in the performance of medieval English theatre and the identity and value of these conventions has often been overlooked. In this book, Philip Butterworth analyses dormant evidence of theatrical processes such as casting, doubling of parts, rehearsing, memorising, cueing, entering, exiting, playing, expounding, prompting, delivering effects, timing, hearing, seeing and responding. All these concerns point to a very different kind of theatre to the naturalistic theatre produced today.

Christianity and Community in the West

Christianity and Community in the West
Author: Simon Ditchfield
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351951734

How did Christians in early modern Western Europe express their sense of community? This book explores the various ways in which religious identities were defined, developed and defended - within both Protestant and Roman Catholic contexts, in England and on the Continent - over a period vital for the history of Christianity. As such it will be of interest not only to historians of religion but also to students of social and cultural history in general.

Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain

Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain
Author: Clifford Davidson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351936611

Based in records and iconography, this book surveys medieval festival playing in Britain more comprehensively than any other work to date. The study presents an inclusive view of the drama in the British Isles, from Kilkenny to Great Yarmouth, from Scotland to Cornwall. It offers detailed readings of individual plays-including the York Creed Play, Pentecost and Corpus Christi plays and the little studied Bodley plays, among others - as well as a summary of what is known of their production. Clifford Davidson here extends the usual chronological range to include work typically categorized as early modern, enabling a juxtaposition of earlier plays with later plays to yield a better understanding of both. Complementing documentary evidence with iconographic detail and citation of music, he pinpoints a number of common misconceptions about medieval drama. By organizing the study around the rituals of the liturgical seasons, he clarifies the relationship between liturgical feast and dramatic celebration.

Locating the Queen's Men, 1583–1603

Locating the Queen's Men, 1583–1603
Author: Holger Schott Syme
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2016-05-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317103661

Locating the Queen's Men presents new and groundbreaking essays on early modern England's most prominent acting company, from their establishment in 1583 into the 1590s. Offering a far more detailed critical engagement with the plays than is available elsewhere, this volume situates the company in the theatrical and economic context of their time. The essays gathered here focus on four different aspects: playing spaces, repertory, play-types, and performance style, beginning with essays devoted to touring conditions, performances in university towns, London inns and theatres, and the patronage system under Queen Elizabeth. Repertory studies, unique to this volume, consider the elements of the company's distinctive style, and how this style may have influenced, for example, Shakespeare's Henry V. Contributors explore two distinct genres, the morality and the history play, especially focussing on the use of stock characters and on male/female relationships. Revising standard accounts of late Elizabeth theatre history, this collection shows that the Queen's Men, often understood as the last rear-guard of the old theatre, were a vital force that enjoyed continued success in the provinces and in London, representative of the abiding appeal of an older, more ostentatiously theatrical form of drama.