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A collection of all known documentary evidence relating to drama
and performance in pre-Cromwellian Ireland. This book is the winner
of the Beatrice White Prize, awarded annually for outstanding
scholarly work in English literature before 1590, for 2001. Drama
and performance in Ireland call to mind the present rather than the
ancient past, yet Irish dramatic and performative traditions were
far richer before the coming of Cromwell than has generally been
appreciated. This book aims to repair a deficit in our knowledge.
It draws together all known documentary evidence for drama and
performance in Ireland up until the closure of the first public
theatre in Dublin in 1641. Historical documents, many never before
published, are given pride of place, but a generous selection of
pertinentliterary sources has been included among the Appendices. A
historical overview of Irish drama and performance prefaces the
record collection, and descriptions are given of every manuscript
and early printed book from which the records featuring in the book
have been taken, as well as translations of items recorded in
Irish, Latin or French. The book thus provides an invaluable
database for a range of disciplines, from students of Irish culture
to social historians, theatre historians and musicologists. ALAN J.
FLETCHER is Lecturer in English Language and medieval Literature,
University College Dublin.
Comprehensive survey of the Middle English lyric, one of the most
important forms of medieval literature. Winner of a CHOICE
Outstanding Academic Title Award The Middle English lyric occupies
a place of considerable importance in the history of English
literature. Here, for the first time in English, are found many
features of formal and thematic importance: they include rhyme
scheme, stanzaic form, the carol genre, love poetry in the manner
of the troubadour poets, and devotional poems focusing on the love,
suffering and compassion of Christ and theVirgin Mary. The essays
in this volume aim to provide both background information on and
new assessments of the lyric. By treating Middle English lyrics
chapter by chapter according to their kinds - poems dealing with
love, with religious devotion, with moral, political and popular
themes, and those associated with preaching - it provides the
awareness of their characteristic cultural contexts and literary
modalities necessary for an informed critical reading. Full account
is taken of the scholarship upon which our knowledge of these
lyrics rests, especially the outstanding contributions of the last
few decades and such recent insights as those of gender criticism.
Also included are detailed discussions of the valuable information
afforded by the widely varying manuscript contexts in which Middle
English lyrics survive and of the diverse issues involved in
editing these texts. Separate chapters are devotedto the carol,
which came to prominence in the fifteenth century, and to Middle
Scots lyrics which, at the end of the Middle English lyric
tradition, present some sophisticated productions of an entirely
new order. Contributors: Julia Boffey, Thomas G. Duncan, John
Scattergood, Vincent Gillespie, Christiania Whitehead, Douglas
Gray, Karl Reichl, Thorlac Turville-Petre, Alan J. Fletcher,
Bernard O'Donoghue, Sarah Stanbury and Alasdair A. MacDonald.
THOMAS G. DUNCAN is Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of English,
University of St Andrews.
Comprehensive survey of the Middle English lyric, one of the most
important forms of medieval literature. Winner of a CHOICE
Outstanding Academic Title Award The Middle English lyric occupies
a place of considerable importance in the history of English
literature. Here, for the first time in English, are found many
features of formal and thematic importance: they include rhyme
scheme, stanzaic form, the carol genre, love poetry in the manner
of the troubadour poets, and devotional poems focusing on the love,
suffering and compassion of Christ and theVirgin Mary. The essays
in this volume aim to provide both background information on and
new assessments of the lyric. By treating Middle English lyrics
chapter by chapter according to their kinds - poems dealing with
love, with religious devotion, with moral, political and popular
themes, and those associated with preaching - it provides the
awareness of their characteristic cultural contexts and literary
modalities necessary for an informed critical reading. Full account
is taken of the scholarship upon which our knowledge of these
lyrics rests, especially the outstanding contributions of the last
few decades and such recent insights as those of gender criticism.
Also included are detailed discussions of the valuable information
afforded by the widely varying manuscript contexts in which Middle
English lyrics survive and of the diverse issues involved in
editing these texts. Separate chapters are devotedto the carol,
which came to prominence in the fifteenth century, and to Middle
Scots lyrics which, at the end of the Middle English lyric
tradition, present some sophisticated productions of an entirely
new order. Contributors: Julia Boffey, Thomas G. Duncan, John
Scattergood, Vincent Gillespie, Christiania Whitehead, Douglas
Gray, Karl Reichl, Thorlac Turville-Petre, Alan J. Fletcher,
Bernard O'Donoghue, Sarah Stanbury and Alasdair A. MacDonald.
THOMAS G. DUNCAN is Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of English,
University of St Andrews
`Rich in scholarship-invaluable to scholars studying the first
milennium AD; highly recommended.' Choice Eclipses and comets can
now be precisely dated and are therefore an invaluable aid in
checking the chronology of historical records. This study covers
the whole world and provides a list of eclipses and comets century
by century.
The modern period has read its own contingent values into Middle
English literature, and a modern canon of vernacular medieval
literary texts has evolved as a result. While this book works with
a selection of texts that have achieved such canonical status, it
brings to light some of the ways in which they nevertheless resist
the flattening domestications and expectations of modern taste. It
illustrates how they formerly existed as constituents of a past
world richer, stranger, and less familiar than much modern opinion
has supposed. Thus the book aims to recuperate lost senses in which
the age in which these texts were conceived and written was present
within them, as well as ways in which they may have been present to
their age. This twin idea of 'presence' is the thread that binds a
series of chapters on English verse and prose written between the
thirteenth and fifteenth centuries together. While they may be read
as discrete studies of individual literary landmarks, the chapters
also entail an implicit and ramifying demonstration of the
shortcomings of some modern views of what makes certain currently
prized Middle English texts worth reading, and of how the
vernacular literature of medieval England is retrospectively to be
defined and periodized.
The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with
students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated
edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide
to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre,
second edition, continues to provide an authoritative introduction
and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles,
morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late
fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises
regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and
particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters
have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three
entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance
of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a
guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified
bibliography and a chronological table.
The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with
students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated
edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide
to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre,
second edition, continues to provide an authoritative introduction
and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles,
morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late
fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises
regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and
particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters
have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three
entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance
of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a
guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified
bibliography and a chronological table.
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