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Medieval English Theatre 43 (Paperback)
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Medieval English Theatre 43 (Paperback)
Series: Medieval English Theatre
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The ludic element of drama in the Middle Ages - or drama with early
subject matter - is here to the fore. 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. This edition combines,
perhaps unexpectedly, royalty and games. Games of all kinds, from
jousting and "Christmas games" to those usually associated with
children, are shown, it is suggested, to be more than they at first
appear. Apparently run-of-the-mill entertainments, when presented
to the court by the Londoners, by the court to a visiting emperor ,
or by the retainers of royalty and nobility to the general public
for commercial gain, turn out to have unexpected political
resonances; while the potential underlying sadism of children's
games gains a horrific immediacy when diverted to the torturing of
Christ. Even today, the musical SIX says a great deal more about
royalty and role-playing than initially might appear, especially
when set against eye-witness accounts of the first meeting of Anna
of Cleves with Henry VIII, and what modern novelists have made of
it . In the process we learn a great deal more about the detail of
these games, from the maskerie costumes of James VI and Anna of
Denmark to the elaborate fantasy challenges of the jousters in
1400/1401, which incidentally suggest that fourteenth-century court
culture, whose language was Anglo-French, is a major missing link
in the history of what is usually treated as purely English
literature. Contributors: Philip Bennett, Philip Butterworth, Sarah
Carpenter, Elisabeth Dutton, James Forse, Gordon Kipling, Michael
Pearce, Meg Twycross.
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