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Medieval English Theatre 42 - Religious Drama and Community (Paperback)
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Medieval English Theatre 42 - Religious Drama and Community (Paperback)
Series: Medieval English Theatre
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Essays on the performance of drama from the Middle Ages, ranging
from the well-known cycles of York to matter from Iran. Medieval
English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies.
Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles
on theatre and pageantry from across the British Isles up to the
opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the civic
mystery cycles, and also includes contributions on European and
Latin drama, together with analyses of modern survivals or
equivalents, and of research productions of medieval plays.
Theatrical performance is central to the groups and communities
discussed in this volume, and to their particular and local
expressions of faith. The articles presented explore the drama of a
variety of different communities from religious orders and houses,
through local, medieval and post-medieval lay communities, to
contemporary worshippers. Contributors examine complex
relationships between theatrical performance and faith,
understanding religious theatre as a mode of worship and a method
of exploring belief, as well as a site for the study of synchronous
and asynchronous connections and fractures within communities.
Particular topics addressed include the fragments of play-scripts
surviving from the monastery at Mont-St-Michel; the Barking Abbey
Easter celebrations; and how the sixteenth-century community which
owned the surviving copy of the Towneley plays might have
understood them in relation to their own faith. The volume is
completed with an exploration of traditional Iranian religious
theatre from an ethnographic perspective, in a bid to uncover and
understand its very particular effects on the contemporary
communities who perform and attend it in the twenty-first century.
ELISABETH DUTTON and OLIVA ROBINSON run the Medieval Convent Drama
project, based at the University of Fribourg and funded by the
Swiss National Science Foundation, which provides the impetus for
this special issue of Medieval English Theatre. Contributors:
Aurelie Blanc, Eleanor Lucy Deacon, George Gandy, Camille Marshall,
James Stokes
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