Music In Early English Religious Drama Minstrels Playing
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The Heaven Singing
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Author : Richard Rastall
language : en
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
The Heaven Singing written by Richard Rastall and has been published by University of Rochester Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Music categories.
Where should there be music in an anonymous English religious play of the fifteenth or sixteenth century? What sort of music should it be, and by what forces should it be performed? This volume shows how music was used at the time of the plays' production, both through a close examination of individual texts, and of the place of music in the intellectual and artistic life of the middle ages. Dr Rastall begins by discussing the internal literary evidence of the play texts, the surviving notated music in the plays, and the documentary evidence of the productions before turning to the wider cultural context in which the plays were composed and performed. He considers the representational and dynamic functions of music in the plays, the relationship between music, drama and liturgy, and the performers themselves - who they were, and what they might be expected to do. Related factors necessary to the discovery of how music was used in late medieval drama are also considered, from medieval cosmology and the numerical construction of plays to the age and size of boy actors. -- A discussion of the use of music in late medieval religious plays through examination of individual texts and the wider cultural context of the age.
Music In Early English Religious Drama The Heaven Singing
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Author : Richard Rastall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Music In Early English Religious Drama The Heaven Singing written by Richard Rastall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Drama, Medieval categories.
The Heaven Singing
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language : en
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Release Date : 1996
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Music In Early English Religious Drama Minstrels Playing
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Author : Richard Rastall
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 1996
Music In Early English Religious Drama Minstrels Playing written by Richard Rastall and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Collections categories.
MEDIUM AEVUM says of Heaven Singing, the general discussion of the subject from which the present volume follows on with examination of the individual plays: 'A formidable achievement, indispensable for any serious and comprehensive study of early English drama.'
The Oxford Handbook Of Medieval Literature In English
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Author : Elaine Treharne
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-04-15
The Oxford Handbook Of Medieval Literature In English written by Elaine Treharne and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade. The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
Minstrels And Minstrelsy In Late Medieval England
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Author : Richard Rastall
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2023-04-04
Minstrels And Minstrelsy In Late Medieval England written by Richard Rastall and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-04 with History categories.
A major new study piecing together the intriguing but fragmentary evidence surrounding the lives of minstrels to highlight how these seemingly peripheral figures were keenly involved with all aspects of late medieval communities. Minstrels were a common sight and sound in the late Middle Ages. Aristocrats, knights and ladies heard them on great occasions (such as Edward I's wedding feast for his daughter Elizabeth in 1296) and in quieter moments in their chambers; town-dwellers heard and saw them in civic processions (when their sound drew attention to the spectacle); and even in the countryside people heard them at weddings, church-ales and other parish celebrations. But who were the minstrels, and what did they do? How did they live, and how easily did they make a living? How did they perform, and in what conditions? The evidence is intriguing but fragmentary, including literary and iconographic sources and, most importantly, the financial records of royal and aristocratic households and of towns. These offer many insights, although they are often hard to fit into any coherent picture of the minstrels' lives and their place in society. It is easy to see the minstrels as peripheral figures, entertainers who had no central place in the medieval world. Yet they were full members of it, interacting with the ordinary people around them, as well as with the ruling classes: carrying letters and important verbal messages, some lending huge sums of money to the king (to finance Henry V's Agincourt campaign in 1415, for instance), some regular and necessary civic servants, some committing crimes or suffering the crimes of others. In this book Rastall and Taylor bring to bear the available evidence to enlarge and enrich our view of the minstrel in late medieval society.
Medieval Drama
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Author : David Bevington
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2012-06-15
Medieval Drama written by David Bevington and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-15 with Drama categories.
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.
The N Town Plays
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Author : Victor I Scherb
language : en
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Release Date : 2007-05-01
The N Town Plays written by Victor I Scherb and has been published by Medieval Institute Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-01 with History categories.
In the late 1400s in eastern England, a scribe was in the process of compiling a large dramatic manuscript of over two hundred vellum folios. The manuscript contains components of an independent Mary Play, parts one and two of an independent Passion Play and an independent Assumption of Mary Play, as well as ten play subjects that appear in no other English cycles - the killing of Lamech in the Noah Play, the Root of Jesse, the story of Joachim and Anne, the Presentation of Mary in the Temple, the Parliament of Heaven, the Trial of Mary and Joseph, the scene of Mary and the cherry tree in the Nativity Play, the Death of Herod, the scene of Veronica's handkerchief in the Procession to Calvary, and the appearance of the risen Christ to the Virgin Mary in her Assumption Play. This edition acknowledges the N-Town compiler who took plays from various contexts and integrated them into an existing cycle of plays, thus treating the manuscript as if it were a superstructure whose parts could be replaced, renovated, and supplemented without altering the fundamental coherence of the overarching design.
The Cambridge Companion To Medieval English Theatre
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Author : Richard Beadle
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-07-10
The Cambridge Companion To Medieval English Theatre written by Richard Beadle and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 Towneley Plays
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Author : Garrett P J Epp
language : en
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Release Date : 2018-02-28
The Towneley Plays written by Garrett P J Epp and has been published by Medieval Institute Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Towneley plays are a collection of biblical plays in the Huntington Library's MS HM 1, a manuscript once owned by the Towneley family of Towneley Hall, Lancashire. Once thought to constitute a cycle of plays from the town of Wakefield in Yorkshire's West Riding, the collection includes some of the best-known examples of medieval English drama, including the much-anthologized Second Shepherds Play.