Screen LibraryMedieval theatre performance : actors, dancers, automata and their audiences /
The nature, conditions and place of medieval theatre performance remain somewhat mysterious, with scholarship in the field tending to be devoted to its context, and to the texts themselves. The essays in this volume seek to address this omission. They consider such matters as the nature of performan...
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
D. S. Brewer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
The nature, conditions and place of medieval theatre performance remain somewhat mysterious, with scholarship in the field tending to be devoted to its context, and to the texts themselves. The essays in this volume seek to address this omission. They consider such matters as the nature of performance in theatre/dance/puppetry/automata; the performed qualities of such events; the conventions of performed work; what took place in the act of performing; and the relationships between performers and witnesses, and what conditioned these relationships. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-274) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781843844761 (hardback) : 1843844761 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PN2152 |
| CLC: | J809.5 |
| Call Number: | J809.5/M489 |
| Contents: |
From archive to repertoire : the Disguising at Hertford and performing practices / Walk, talk, sit, quit? On what happens in Netherlandisch rhetoricians' plays / Performing intrusions : interaction and interaxionality in medieval English theatre / Player transformation : the role of clothing and disguise / Pavilioned in splendour : performing heaven in fifteenth-century Florence / Living pictures : drama without text, drama without action / Performer-audience relationships in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century danced spectacles / Decadence in the late Middle Ages : the case of Choreomania / Writing, telling and showing horsemanship in rhetoricians' farce / Inanimate performers : the animation and interpretive versatility of the Palmesel / "lyke unto a lyvelye thyng" : the Boxley Rood of Grace and medieval performance / The mechanycalle "Ymage off Seynt Iorge" at St. Botolph's, Billingsgate, 1474 / |