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Medieval English Theatre 44
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Medieval English Theatre 44
Series: Medieval English Theatre
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Newest research into drama and performance of the Middle Ages and
Tudor period. 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 religious plays , and also includes
contributions on European and Latin drama, together with analyses
of modern survivals or equivalents, and of research productions of
medieval plays. The papers in this volume explore richly
interlocking topics. Themes of royalty and play continue from
Volume 43. We have the first in-depth examination of the employment
of the now-famous Black Tudor trumpeter, John Blanke, at the royal
courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. An entertaining survey of the
popular European game of blanket-tossing accompanies the
translation of a raucous, sophisticated, but surprisingly humane
Dutch rederijkers farce. The Towneley plays remain fertile ground
for further research, and this blanket-tossing farce illuminates a
key scene of the well-known Second Shepherd's Play. New exploration
of a colloquial reference to 'Stafford Blue' in another Towneley
pageant, Noah, not only enlivens the play's social context but
contributes to important current re-thinking of the manuscript's
date. Two papers bring home the theatrical potential of food and
eating. We learn how the Tudor interlude Jacob and Esau dramatises
the preparation and provision of food from the Genesis story.
Serving and eating meals becomes a means of social, theological,
and theatrical manipulation. Contrastingly, in the N. Town Last
Supper play and a French convent drama, we see how the bread of
Passover, the Last Supper, and the Mass could be evoked, layered
and shared in performance. In both these plays the audiences'
experiences of theatre and of communion overlap and inform each
other.
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