Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare and Early English Drama (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526172136)

A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval afterlives brings new insight to the ways in which peoples in the sixteenth century understood, manipulated and responded to the history of their performance spaces, stage technologies, characterisation and popular dramatic tropes. In doing so, this volume advocates for a new understanding of sixteenth-seventeenth century theatre makers as highly aware of the medieval traditions that formed their performance practices, and audiences who recognised and appreciated the recycling of these practices between plays.

Author: Daisy Black
ISBN-10: 1526172135
ISBN-13: 9781526172136
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/28/2024
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d