The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo) - A Dramaturgical Analysis, Historical Commentary, and Latin Edition with a New English Verse Translation (Paperback)

The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo) was composed around 1160 at the imperial Bavarian abbey of Tegernsee, at a critical point in the power-struggle between the papacy and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. This new translation and commentary reveals this drama to be strikingly representative of the role that theatrical performance played in shaping contemporary politics, diplomacy, and public opinion. It also shows how drama functioned as an integral component of the educational curricula of elite monastic institutions like Tegernsee, where political administrators and diplomats were trained, and how performance served as a common, connective lingua franca among monasteries in twelfth-century Bavaria. In this new translation, Carol Symes provides the first full and faithful rendering of the play’s dynamic language, maintaining the meter, rhyme scheme, and stage directions of the Latin original and restoring the liturgical elements embedded in the text. Kyle A. Thomas, whose fully-staged production tested the theatricality of this translation, provides a new historical and dramaturgical analysis of the play’s rich interpretive and performative possibilities.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Early Drama, Art, and Music
Release date:	August 2023
First published:	2021
Authors:	Kyle A. Thomas • Carol Symes
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Paperback (DE)
Pages:	174
ISBN-13:	978-1-5015-1798-3
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-5015-1798-8
Barcode:	9781501517983

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