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Collected Studies CS1062 This volume brings together a selection of
the major articles of Alexandra F. Johnston, which along with
similar volumes by the late David Mills, Peter Meredith and Meg
Twycross makes up a set of "Shifting Paradigms in Early English
Drama Studies". Alexandra Johnston, the founding director of the
research project, Records of Early English Drama, is one of these
four key scholars whose work has had a profound influence on the
study of medieval and early modern English drama. This collection
of essays focuses especially on the York plays: on the Mercers'
documents that initiated the project itself; on the theology and
christology of the plays; on the relationship between the plays and
contemporary administrative bodies, both civic and national; and on
the performance of the York plays in modern times. A further group
of articles considers documentary evidence for the wide range of
drama and mimetic ceremony in the Midlands and the West Country,
reinforcing our understanding that these events took place
predominately on a local parish level. The collection is rounded
out with a survey of the immense changes that our reading of early
English drama have undergone over the past half century.
Collected Studies CS1062 This volume brings together a selection of
the major articles of Alexandra F. Johnston, which along with
similar volumes by the late David Mills, Peter Meredith and Meg
Twycross makes up a set of "Shifting Paradigms in Early English
Drama Studies". Alexandra Johnston, the founding director of the
research project, Records of Early English Drama, is one of these
four key scholars whose work has had a profound influence on the
study of medieval and early modern English drama. This collection
of essays focuses especially on the York plays: on the Mercers'
documents that initiated the project itself; on the theology and
christology of the plays; on the relationship between the plays and
contemporary administrative bodies, both civic and national; and on
the performance of the York plays in modern times. A further group
of articles considers documentary evidence for the wide range of
drama and mimetic ceremony in the Midlands and the West Country,
reinforcing our understanding that these events took place
predominately on a local parish level. The collection is rounded
out with a survey of the immense changes that our reading of early
English drama have undergone over the past half century.
Investigations into the "realities" of staging dramatic
performances, of a variety of kinds, in the middle ages. We know
little about the nature of medieval performance and have generally
been content to think of it in relation to more modern productions,
not least because of the sparsity of existing evidence.
Consequently, whilst much research has been undertaken into its
contexts, there has been relatively little scholarly investigation
into the conditions of perfomance itself. This book seeks to
address this omission. It looks at such questions as the nature of
performance in theatre/dance/puppetry/automata; the performed
qualities of such events; the conventions of performed work; what
took place in the act of performing; and the relationships between
performers and witnesses, andwhat conditioned them. PHILIP
BUTTERWORTH Is Visiting Research Fellow in the Institute for
Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds, where he was formerly
Reader in Medieval Theatre and Dean for Research; KATIE NORMINGTON
is Senior Vice Principal (Academic) at Royal Holloway, University
of London, where she is also Professor of Drama. Contributors:
Kathryn Emily Dickason, Leanne Groeneveld, Max Harris, David
Klausner, Femke Kramer, Jennifer Nevile, Nerida Newbigin, Tom
Pettitt, Bart Ramakers, Claire Sponsler.
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