Drama and Imagery in English Medieval Churches
| Author | : Mary Désirée Anderson |
| Publisher | : CUP Archive |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre
| Author | : Richard Beadle |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2008-07-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139827928 |
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.
The Theater of Devotion
| Author | : Gail McMurray Gibson |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780226291024 |
In this interdisciplinary study of drama, arts, and spirituality, Gail Gibson provides a provocative reappraisal of fifteenth-century English theater through a detailed portrait of the flourishing cultures of Suffolk and Norfolk. By emphasizing the importance of the Incarnation of Christ as a model and justification for late medieval drama and art, Gibson challenges currently held views of the secularization of late medieval culture.
Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays
| Author | : Peter Happé |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2016-08-09 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 900433369X |
Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays is centred upon the five extant English mystery cycles with a view to examining the cyclic form they share. It is based upon consideration of the differences between the texts and upon the underlying assumptions governing this dramatic form. The cycles are extensively compared with practices in the cyclic dramas of France, the German-speaking areas, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain in the late middle ages and the early modern period. There is also a unique and innovative bridging with iconographical material from a range of artistic modes giving further insight into the structure and organisation of cyclic form. Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays should be of interest to undergraduate students and to more experienced researchers in the early drama and the study of visual images and artefacts.
Medieval Theatre in Context: An Introduction
| Author | : John Harris |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2016-09-17 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1134961898 |
First Published in 1992. Medieval Theatre in Context is the first systematic attempt to relate the development of medieval drama - both Christian and pagan - to contemporary society and the Christian church.
Place and Space in the Medieval World
| Author | : Meg Boulton |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2017-12-06 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1315413639 |
This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, presenting a scholarly introduction written by the editors alongside thematic case studies that address a wide range of visual and textual material. The chapters consider the extant visual and textual sources from the medieval period alongside contemporary scholarly discussions to examine place and space in their wider critical context, and are written by specialists in a range of disciplines including art history, archaeology, history, and literature.
The English Mystery Plays
| Author | : Rosemary Woolf |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 1980-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780520040816 |
This important new study of the English mystery plays has a twofold purpose. It is concerned to investigate the antecedents of the four extant cycles and to demonstrate the dramatic value of the plays themselves The opening and concluding chapters place the plays in their historical context by discussing on the one hand the emergence and achievements of genuine religious drama (as opposed to liturgical drama) in the twelfth century and on the other the changes in taste that threw the plays into disrepute in the sixteenth century. The man part of the book analyzes the plays in detail, considering the iconographic and theological traditions that guided the dramatists in their treatment of biblical subject-matter, and also looking at the Continental drama of the time to find out what other dramatic possibilities were open to writers in the Middle Ages. -- From publisher's description.
Misconceptions About the Middle Ages
| Author | : Stephen Harris |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 573 |
| Release | : 2010-05-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1135986665 |
Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now. Ranging across religion, art, and science, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages unravels some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period, including: the church war science art society With an impressive international array of contributions, the book will be essential reading for students and scholars involved with medieval religion, history, and culture.
European Drama of the Early Middle Ages
| Author | : Richard Axton |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2024-11-01 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1040274706 |
First published in 1974, European Drama of the Early Middle Ages stresses the distinctive variety of the dramatic traditions, both secular and religious, and shows that throughout the period the popular and profane was a constant and lively source of enrichment to the mainstream of charge drama.Dr Axton reconstructs the forms and conventions of the major secular traditions and analyses in detail some of the finest plays of the period from traditions as various as the twelfth century Latin music dramas and the unique drama of Arras in Northern France. Turning finally to late medieval English drama he illustrates and underlines his main theme of the largely unrecognised influence of secular traditions on both the morality and cycle plays. The period from 900 to 1400 was remarkable, as Richard Axton demonstrates, for a dramatic range which accommodated the bawdy, the crude and the fantastic beside the solemn and sacred in its constant preoccupation with man and his identity. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of English and European Literature.
Renaissance Poetry and Drama in Context
| Author | : Andrew Lynch |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2009-03-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1443808407 |
Renaissance Poetry and Drama in Context is a stimulating refereed collection of new work dedicated to Emeritus Professor Christopher Wortham of The University of Western Australia. The essays provide a rich context for the interdisciplinary study of the English Renaissance, from its medieval antecedents to its modern afterlife on stage and screen. Their up-to-date engagement with many scholarly fields - art and iconography, cartography, cultural and social history, literature, politics, theatre, and film - will ensure that this book makes a valuable contribution to contemporary Renaissance studies, with a special interest for those researching and teaching English literature and drama. The nineteen contributors include distinguished Renaissance scholars such as Ann Blake, Graham Bradshaw, Alan Brissenden, Conal Condren, Joost Daalder, Heather Dubrow, Philippa Kelly, Anthony Miller, Kay Gililand Stevenson, Robert White, and Lawrence Wright. Work on Shakespeare forms the core of this coherent collection. There are also significant essays on Magnificence, Donne, Marlowe, A Yorkshire Tragedy, Jonson, Marvell, the Ferrars of Little Gidding, and female conduct literature. hardbound with dust jacket; xii+353 pp; 18 b/w illustrations.
