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Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Europe - Playmakers and their Strategies (Hardcover)
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Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Europe - Playmakers and their Strategies (Hardcover)
Series: Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History
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Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Europe moves away from the
customary conceptual framework that artificially separates
'medieval' from 'early modern' drama to explore the role of drama
and spectacle in England, France, the Low Countries, Spain, Italy,
Switzerland, and the German-speaking areas that now constitute
Austria and Germany. This book investigates the ranges of dramatic
and performative techniques and strategies that playmakers across
Europe used to adapt their work to the changing contexts in which
they performed, and to the changing or expanding audiences that
they faced. It considers the different views expressed through
drama and spectacle on shared historical events, how communities
coped with similar issues and why they ritually recycled these
themes through reinvented or alternative forms that replaced or
existed alongside their predecessors. A wide variety of genres of
play are discussed throughout, including visitatio sepulchri (visit
to the tomb) plays; Easter and Passion plays and morality plays;
the French civic mystere; Italian sacre rappresentazioni performed
by choirboys in the context of the church; Burgertheater from the
Swiss Confederacy; drama performed for the purpose of royal
entertainment and propaganda; May and summer games; and the
commercial, professional theatre of Shakespeare and Lope de Vega.
Examining the strength of drama in relation to the larger cultural
forces to which it adapted, and demonstrating the use of social,
political, economic, and artistic networks to educate and support
the social structures of communities, Drama in Medieval and Early
Modern Europe offers a broader understanding of a shared European
past across the traditional chronological divide of 1500. It is
ideal for students of social history, and the history of medieval
and early modern drama or literature.
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