Drama - Medieval

Ironwork, Part 1: From The Earliest Times To The End Of The Medieval Period (1907) is a comprehensive book written by John Starkie Gardner that explores the history and development of ironwork from its earliest origins to the end of the medieval period. The...

The Children's Crusade is a play in four scenes, with a cast of 21 children and adults plus more children as needed, with music and knightly pageantry.Author: Nancy Carpentier Brown, Frances ChestertonISBN-10: 1479141011ISBN-13: 9781479141012Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2012Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.02h...

The book ""Churches And Castles Of Medieval France"" by Walter Cranston Larned, published in 1895, is a comprehensive study of the architectural and cultural heritage of medieval France. The author takes the reader on a journey through the history of France, exploring the various...

Burgage Tenure in Medieval England is a historical book written by Morley De Wolf Hemmeon and first published in 1914. The book explores the concept of burgage tenure, a form of land tenure that was common in medieval England. Burgage tenure involved the ownership...

Did you hear the one about the Mother Superior who was so busy casting the first stone that she got caught in flagrante delicto with her lover? What about the drunk with a Savior complex who was fool enough to believe himself to be...

Did you hear the one about the Mother Superior who was so busy casting the first stone that she got caught in flagrante delicto with her lover? What about the drunk with a Savior complex who was fool enough to believe himself to be...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Few medieval plays in English have attracted as much twenty-first-century interest as the Digby Mary Magdalene, an early-fifteenth-century drama that, as Chester Scoville puts it, is "probably the most spectacular of the late medieval English plays." This new edition presents a modernized text of...

This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.Author: Joseph SarachekISBN-10: 1494093391ISBN-13: 9781494093396Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.73d

These essays of Sarah Carpenter have been selected to reflect her career's close focus on the relationship of performance and audience. They are drawn from the last 25 years of her writing, and this has enabled the editors to organise them not chronologically but...

Western drama, having all but disappeared during the Dark Ages, reemerged spontaneously in the liturgy and life of the medieval church. Vernacular miracle plays of England's Middle Ages were performed by lay people -- many by trade guilds -- unschooled in church Latin, but...

An important collection of over forty fully annotated plays from the medieval period with substantial introductions. Author: Christina M. FitzgeraldISBN-10: 1554810566ISBN-13: 9781554810567Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2012Pages: 584Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.30h x 7.70w x 0.70d

Often viewed as theologically conservative, many theatrical works of late medieval and early Tudor England nevertheless exploited the performative nature of drama to flirt with unsanctioned expressions of desire, allowing queer identities and themes to emerge. Early plays faced vexing challenges in depicting sexuality,...

This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama. It charts conflicts staged between dramatic personae in plays that represent theological transitions, including the Incarnation, Flood, Nativity and Bethlehem slaughter. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with what it asserted was...

This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by insightful commentary notes, while its lively introduction provides an essential contextual grounding in the court scandals, anti-Catholic sentiment and Senecan drama that formed a backdrop to Webster's tragedy. Exploring the challenges of staging this highly...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

Like other compilations of medieval urban drama, the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast of Corpus Christi from the late fourteenth century until the third quarter of the sixteenth have most frequently been discussed in the context of...

The history of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de si鐵le Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The decline of Rome provides the pattern for both aesthetic and social decadence, a pattern that artists and writers in the nineteenth...

Faintly, on the fourth slow day, a strange noise was born above the water from some direction beyond sight. Invisible, no one knew the origin, but a cadence remained... like a soft muffled pulse, the twilight whisper of powerful wings, or the stroke of...

The thirteen chapters in this collection open up new horizons for the study of biblical drama by putting special emphasis on multitemporality, the intersections of biblical narrative and performance, and the strategies employed by playwrights to rework and adapt the biblical source material in...

This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.Author: Jules Michelet, A. R. AllinsonISBN-10: 1494092719ISBN-13: 9781494092719Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.73d

In Performance and Religion in Early Modern England, Matthew J. Smith seeks to expand our view of "the theatrical." By revealing the creative and phenomenal ways that performances reshaped religious material in early modern England, he offers a more inclusive and integrative view of...

The civic religious drama of late medieval England--financed, produced, and performed by craftspeople--offers one of the earliest forms of written literature by a non-elite group in Europe. In this innovative study, Nicole R. Rice and Margaret Aziza Pappano trace an artisanal perspective on medieval...