Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230606654)

Street Scenes offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The performance theory perspective employed here, along with the examination of actor/character dialectics, paves the way to understanding both religious theatre and the complexity of late medieval theatricalities. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi demonstrates the existence of a late medieval discourse about the double appeal of theatre performance: an artistic medium enacting sacred history while simultaneously referring to the present lives of its creators and spectators.

Author: S. Aronson-Lehavi
ISBN-10: 0230606652
ISBN-13: 9780230606654
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2011
Pages: 183
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.60d