Provides a cultural and historical context for medieval popular
drama.
In Drama and Resistance, Claire Sponsler explores the
intertwined histories of bodily subjectivity, commodity culture,
and theatricality in late medieval England. In a fascinating
consideration of popular drama in the period from 1350 to 1520, she
argues that many types of performances during this time represented
cultural evasions of the imposition of disciplinary power.
The medieval theater was a social site where resistance, masked
from the full scrutiny of authority by theatricality, was
practiced, articulated, and enacted. Sponsler examines three key
discourses of authoritarian bodily and commodity control --
clothing laws, conduct literature, and Books of Hours -- and pairs
them with three kinds of theatrical performances that enact
resistance to disciplining codes -- Robin Hood performances,
morality plays, and Corpus Christi pageants. She considers the
contradictions and inconsistencies in the repressive official
discourses and analyzes the ways in which the staging of forbidden
acts like cross-dressing, social and sexual misbehavior, and
violence against the body challenged these discourses.
Drawing on recent social theory, Drama and Resistance is an
important contribution to medieval studies and the history of
theater.
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