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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages: Jody Enders, Theresa Coletti, John T Sebastian, Carol Symes A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages
Jody Enders, Theresa Coletti, John T Sebastian, Carol Symes; Series edited by Rebecca Bushnell
R929 Discovery Miles 9 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Eight essays offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies. The result? A recuperated medieval tragedy that is as much a branch of literature as it is of theology, politics, law, or ethics and which, at long last, rejoins the millennium-long conversation about one of the world’s most enduring art forms. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages (Hardcover): Jody Enders, Theresa Coletti, John T Sebastian, Carol Symes A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
Jody Enders, Theresa Coletti, John T Sebastian, Carol Symes; Series edited by Rebecca Bushnell
R2,670 Discovery Miles 26 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn't be higher. Eight essays offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies. The result? A recuperated medieval tragedy that is as much a branch of literature as it is of theology, politics, law, or ethics and which, at long last, rejoins the millennium-long conversation about one of the world's most enduring art forms. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama (Paperback, Annotated edition): Christina M. Fitzgerald, John T Sebastian The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Christina M. Fitzgerald, John T Sebastian
R1,892 Discovery Miles 18 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The past generation has been an extraordinarily active one in medieval drama scholarship; our appreciation of the range of medieval drama has been significantly broadened, and our understanding of certain medieval genres-most notably, biblical drama-has been fundamentally altered. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has been widely praised for the degree to which it has taken this scholarship into account in its selection of and presentation of medieval plays. Now Broadview launches a new anthology that takes those plays as its base while expanding very substantially beyond them to represent the full range of drama in English (and, where strong connections exist, in French, Latin, Cornish, and Welsh as well) through to 1576. In all, over forty plays are included. Each work has been fully annotated and is prefaced by a substantial introduction. In many cases the language is to some extent modernised in order to make the plays more accessible to readers today.

The York Corpus Christi Play - Selected Pageants (Paperback): Christina M. Fitzgerald The York Corpus Christi Play - Selected Pageants (Paperback)
Christina M. Fitzgerald; Edited by (general) Christina M. Fitzgerald, John T Sebastian
R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The York Corpus Christi Play as we know it consists of 47 surviving individual plays or "pageants," 27 of which are included in this volume. (The whole is always referred to in the singular, following the usage of medieval York itself.) This cycle of plays was produced by the York civic government and its occupational guilds-called "crafts"-and performed annually for nearly 200 years on Corpus Christi day, a mid-summer feast with a movable date that could fall between May 23 and June 24. The York Corpus Christi play is the only extant and complete cycle of plays performed on Corpus Christi day in England throughout the play's life. The earliest record we have of the York play is from 1376; the last performance until the 20th century was in 1569. Together these 27 plays represent the cycle's core narrative of creation, fall, and salvation. In addition to 27 of the pageants, this new edition includes extensive annotation (both marginal glosses and explanatory footnotes), a wide-ranging introduction, and a helpful selection of background contextual materials.

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