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The Medieval Theatre
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Author : Glynne William Gladstone Wickham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1987-07-09
The Medieval Theatre written by Glynne William Gladstone Wickham 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 1987-07-09 with Drama categories.
This is a thoroughly revised edition of Glynne Wickham's important history of the development of dramatic art in Christian Europe. Professor Wickham surveys the foundations on which this dramatic art was built: the architecture, costumes and ceremonial of the imperial court at Byzantium, the liturgies of countires in the Eastern and Western Empires and the triumph of the Roman rite and the Romanesque style in Western art. Within this context Professor Wickham describes three major influences upon the drama: religion, recreation and commerce. The first produced the liturgical music drama rooted in praise of Christ the King, vernacular Corpus Christi drama, Saint Plays and Moralities centred on the humanity of Christ. The second gave rise to the secular theatres of social recreation based on the games and dances of village communities ad the more sophisticated sex and war games of the nobility. The section on commerce shows how the development of the drama was intimately related to questions of funding and management which led, during the sixteenth century, to the substitution of a professional for an amateur theatre, and to a growing emphasis on stage spectacle. For this third edition the author has added a substantial section on monastic reform and its effect on Biblical translation and the use of allegory; a final chapter charts the transition in different European countries from this medieval Gothic theatre to the neoclassical methods of play construction and representation which flourished for the next two hundred years. The book gorges a coherent pattern through a very large and complicated subject. It is an excellent introduction to medieval theatre for undergraduates and to the growing number of theatregoers who enjoy contemporary revivals of medieval plays. A large plate section gives a pictorial version of the story, using photographs of contemporary manuscript illuminations, mosaics, frescoes, paintings and sculptures.
Gesture In Medieval Drama And Art
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Author : Clifford Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Release Date : 2001
Gesture In Medieval Drama And Art written by Clifford Davidson 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 2001 with Acting categories.
Eight contributions from academics explore representations of gesture in medieval art as a means to understanding how gesture might have been used in medieval theater. Topics include, for example, a study of the main back panel of a 14th century Italian painting, which may echo the gestures in the dramas of the period, and body language in the illustrated manuscript at Aix-en-Provence. The text is accompanied by bandw illustrations of medieval art. c. Book News Inc.
A Companion To The Medieval Theatre
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Author : Ronald W. Vince
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1989-03-27
A Companion To The Medieval Theatre written by Ronald W. Vince and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-03-27 with Performing Arts categories.
Vince has provided a useful and, for the most part, usable reference work. His introduction should be required reading for anyone approaching medieval theater. Choice Scholars increasingly see medieval theatre as a complex and vital performance medium related more closely to political, religious, and social life than to literature as we know it. Reflecting the current interest in performance, A Companion to the Medieval Theatre presents 250 alphabetically arranged entries offering a panoramic view of European and British theatrical productions between the years 900 and 1550. The volume features 30 essays contributed by an international group of specialists and includes many shorter entries as well as systematic cross-referencing, a chronology, a bibliography, and a full complement of indexes. Major entries focus on the theatres of the principal linguistic areas (the British Isles, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, and Eastern Europe), and on dramatic forms and genres such as liturgical drama, Passion and saint plays, morality plays, folk drama, and Humanist drama. Other articles examine costume, acting, pageantry, and music, and explore the theatrical dimension of courtly entertainment, the dance, and the tournament. Short entries supply information on over one hundred playwrights, directors, actors and antiquarians whose contributions to the theatre have been documented. This informative guide brings new depth to our appreciation of the richness and color of medieval public entertainments and the symbolism and pageantry that were a part of daily life in the Middle Ages. Designed to appeal to general reader, this volume is also an attractive choice for libraries serving students and scholars of theatre history, English and European literatures, medieval history, cultural history, drama, and performance.
French Visual Culture And The Making Of Medieval Theater
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Author : Laura Weigert
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-30
French Visual Culture And The Making Of Medieval Theater written by Laura Weigert 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 2015-12-30 with Art categories.
This book revives the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes.
The Theatre In The Middle Ages
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Author : William Tydeman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1979-03-15
The Theatre In The Middle Ages written by William Tydeman 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 1979-03-15 with Drama categories.
Popular and scholarly works on the Elizabethan stage have long familiarised readers and playgoers with the main features of a typical Shakespearian playhouse, yet medieval stage conditions remain far less well known, despite the amount of research in this area recently. In this survey of findings and theories (some unavoidably controversial), William Tydeman covers central aspects of western European theatre from the Dark Ages to the building of the first public theatres towards the end of the sixteenth century. The book begins by examining the ancient rituals from which drama sprang, the legacy bequeathed by the Roman stage to popular entertainers of the Middle Ages, and the rôle of the histrionic impulse in Christian worship. Subsequent chapters describe in some detail the varying methods of medieval staging - indoors, processional, and al fresco - settings, costumes, and effects, the way performers were chosen and organised, how the plays were financed and how their audiences responded. Half-tone and line illustrations clarify various points of theatrical detail in the text.
The Medieval Drama
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Author : Sandro Sticca
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1972-06-30
The Medieval Drama written by Sandro Sticca and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972-06-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The religious medieval drama, like the Church which produced it, was international. As such, from its earliest beginnings in the tenth-century Quem quaeritis to the thirteenth-century Ludi Paschales and Passion Plays, it exhibits a cultural and thematic unity binding the various plays: a thematic unity from the fabric of Christian thought, and a cultural unity from the fact that these productions, at least up to the end of the thirteenth century, generally share a technical-philological medium: the Latin language. In later centuries, this religious drama expressed in the vernacular remained an act of faith; its purpose being to strengthen the faith of the worshippers and to express in visible, dramatic terms the facts and values of Christian belief. These essays were, in their original form, addressed to the third annual conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. The work of international authorities on the medieval drama, they span many centuries and bear witness to the growth of the religious dramatic form and of the dramatic movement and temper of the liturgy in which that form finds its origin. Omer Jodogne establishes a difference, on the aesthetic level, between dramatic works and their theatrical performance by pointing out that the surviving texts, whether they were meant for reading or for a theatrical performance, reproduce only what was said on the stage, and, succinctly, what was done. Wolfgang Michael suggests that the first medieval drama did not originate in a slow growth from the Easter trope Quem quaeritis but was rather an original creation of the author or authors of the Concordia Regularis. He indicates that subsequent dramatic endeavors in their slow process of change and expansion reflect the working of tradition rather than an original spirit and form. Sandro Sticca examines the creation of the first Passion Play and shows that Christ's passion became increasingly popular in the tenth century, and that the new forces which allowed a more eloquent and humane visualization and description of Christ's anguish first appeared in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He also refutes the traditional view that the Planctus Mariae is the germinal point of the Latin Passion Play. V. A. Kolve seeks to account for certain central facts about Everyman which have never had close critical attention. He analyzes the Biblical and Patristic references within which the story is shaped and which are central to the understanding of other actions and to determining the meaning of the play. Glynn Wickham, after exploding on the evidence of reference alone the old categorizing of English Saint Plays as by-products or late developments of Mysteries and Moralities, turns to a critical discussion of the three surviving texts of English Saint Plays and of their original staging by means of diagrammatic illustrations providing a vivid visualization of their performance. William Smolden takes an unaccustomed approach to the controversial question of the origins of the Quem quaeritis. He maintains that when musical evidence is called on, it brings about, on a number of occasions, a confutation of the theory of a "textual" writer. From a detailed consideration of the two earliest Quem quaeritis he feels convinced that the place of origin of the trope was the Abbey of St. Martial of Limoges.
The Medieval Theatre
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Author : Glynne Wickham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1987-07-09
The Medieval Theatre written by Glynne Wickham 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 1987-07-09 with Drama categories.
This is a thoroughly revised edition of Glynne Wickham's important history of the development of dramatic art in Christian Europe. Professor Wickham surveys the foundations on which this dramatic art was built: the architecture, costumes and ceremonial of the imperial court at Byzantium, the liturgies of countires in the Eastern and Western Empires and the triumph of the Roman rite and the Romanesque style in Western art. Within this context Professor Wickham describes three major influences upon the drama: religion, recreation and commerce. The first produced the liturgical music drama rooted in praise of Christ the King, vernacular Corpus Christi drama, Saint Plays and Moralities centred on the humanity of Christ. The second gave rise to the secular theatres of social recreation based on the games and dances of village communities ad the more sophisticated sex and war games of the nobility. The section on commerce shows how the development of the drama was intimately related to questions of funding and management which led, during the sixteenth century, to the substitution of a professional for an amateur theatre, and to a growing emphasis on stage spectacle. For this third edition the author has added a substantial section on monastic reform and its effect on Biblical translation and the use of allegory; a final chapter charts the transition in different European countries from this medieval Gothic theatre to the neoclassical methods of play construction and representation which flourished for the next two hundred years. The book gorges a coherent pattern through a very large and complicated subject. It is an excellent introduction to medieval theatre for undergraduates and to the growing number of theatregoers who enjoy contemporary revivals of medieval plays. A large plate section gives a pictorial version of the story, using photographs of contemporary manuscript illuminations, mosaics, frescoes, paintings and sculptures.
The Medieval Theatre Illustr
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Author : Glynne Wickham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Medieval Theatre Illustr written by Glynne Wickham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.
Medieval Theatre In Context An Introduction
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Author : Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-30
Medieval Theatre In Context An Introduction written by Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-30 with categories.
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
The Medieval Theater Of Cruelty
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Author : Jody Enders
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2002
The Medieval Theater Of Cruelty written by Jody Enders and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Why did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle Ages. Theories of rhetoric and law of the time reveal, she points out, that the ideology of torture was a widely accepted means for exploiting such essential elements of the stage and stagecraft as dramatic verisimilitude, pity, fear, and catharsis to fabricate truth. Analyzing the consequences of torture for the history of aesthetics in general and of drama in particular, Enders shows that if the violence embedded in the history of rhetoric is acknowledged, we are better able to understand not only the enduring "theater of cruelty" identified by theorists from Isidore of Seville to Antonin Artaud, but also the continuing modern devotion to the spectacle of pain.