This book presents a new approach to early English theatre by
exposing a genuine relationship between monastic performances and
theatricality. It argues that modern theatre was reinvented in
Anglo-Saxon monasteries by monks who were required to transform
themselves by disciplining their bodies and performing complex
religious acts. After extensively surveying the monastic and
liturgical sources of theatre the author reconstructs the
XII-century staging of the Anglo-Norman "Ordo representacionis Ade"
and demonstrates the fundamental incongruity between the ancient
and Christian performativity. On a more personal note he concludes
with comments on references to the monastic rule in "Performer", a
programmatic text by Jerzy Grotowski.
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