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Medieval English Theatre 44
Meg Twycross, Sarah Carpenter, Elisabeth Dutton, Gordon Kipling; Contributions by Elisabeth Dutton, …
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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.
New essays on a wide variety of topics from poetry to dress to
violence to a recipe collection. The fifteenth century defies
consensus on fundamental issues; most scholars agree, however, that
the period outgrew the Middle Ages, that it was a time of
transition and a passage to modern times. Fifteenth-Century
Studiesoffers essays on diverse aspects of the period, including
liberal and fine arts, historiography, medicine, and religion.
Following the customary opening article on the current state of
fifteenth-century drama research, essays treat such topics as
poetry as a source for illustrated German prose, the St. Edith
picture cycle in Salisbury, the flourishing of French history; and
Spanish schools of translators. Other essays treat poems from the
Gruuthusesongbook; Louis XI and pilgrim's dress, Robert Henryson's
Moral Fabilles, violence in English romances, Jews' presence
through absence in Vicente Ferrer's Sermons, and Conrad Buitzruss's
recipe collection in Manuscript Clm 671 (Munich). Book reviews
conclude the volume. Contributors: Edelgard E. DuBruck, James H.
Brown, Mary Dockray-Miller, Jean Dufournet, Rocio del Rio
Fernandez, Bas Jongenelen and Ben Parsons, Jennifer Lee,
JohnMarlin, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Daniel Salas-Dias, Elizabeth I.
Wade-Sirabian. Edelgard E. DuBruck is Professor Emerita of French
and Humanities at Marygrove College, Detroit, Michigan, and Barbara
I. Gusick is Professor Emerita of English at Troy University,
Dothan, Alabama.
Text and translation of comic plays sheds light on a fascinating
era of theatrical production. `[Opens] up an entirely new corpus of
texts for scholars and readers familar with and interested in
European dramatic texts from this period, but who have heretofore
not had access to them due to the language barrier.' Professor
David F. Johnson, Florida State University, Tallahassee During the
Middle Ages and early modern period, a dramatic culture of
astonishing vitality developed in the Low Countries. Owing to the
activities of organisationsknown as rederijkerskamers, or "chambers
of rhetoric", drama became a central aspect of public life in the
cities of the Netherlands. The comedies produced by these groups
are particularly interesting. Drawing their forms and narratives
from folklore and popular ritual, and entertaining in their own
right, they also bring together a range of important concerns; they
respond directly to some of the key developments in the period,
reflecting the political and religious turmoil of the Reformation
and Dutch Revolt, the emergence of humanism, and the appearance of
an early capitalist economy. This collection brings together the
original Middle Dutch text of ten of these comic plays, with facing
translation into modern English. The selection is divided evenly
between formal stage-plays and monologues, and provides a
representation of the full range of rederijker drama, from the
sophisticatedFarce of the Fisherman, with its sly undermining of
audience expectation, to the hearty scatology of A Mock-Sermon on
Saint Nobody, and the grim gallows humour of The Farce of the
Beggar. An introduction and notes place the plays in their context
and elucidate difficulties of interpretation. Ben Parsons is
Teaching Fellow at the University of Leicester; Bas Jongenelen is
teacher of Dutch Literature at Fontys Lerarenopleidingin Tilburg.
Er worden in Nederland veel festivals en feesten georganiseerd met
Hollandse muziek. Deze feesten en festivals worden aangekondigd met
posters. Deze posters hebben een eigen beeldtaal die al minstens
tien jaar min of meer ongewijzigd is. In dit boek staan 101 van die
posters. Samen vertellen ze een korte geschiedenis van deze
eigen(wijze) kunstvorm.
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