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The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo) was composed
around 1160 at the imperial Bavarian abbey of Tegernsee, at a
critical point in the power-struggle between the papacy and Emperor
Frederick Barbarossa. This new translation and commentary reveals
this drama to be strikingly representative of the role that
theatrical performance played in shaping contemporary politics,
diplomacy, and public opinion. It also shows how drama functioned
as an integral component of the educational curricula of elite
monastic institutions like Tegernsee, where political
administrators and diplomats were trained, and how performance
served as a common, connective lingua franca among monasteries in
twelfth-century Bavaria. In this new translation, Carol Symes
provides the first full and faithful rendering of the play’s
dynamic language, maintaining the meter, rhyme scheme, and stage
directions of the Latin original and restoring the liturgical
elements embedded in the text. Kyle A. Thomas, whose fully-staged
production tested the theatricality of this translation, provides a
new historical and dramaturgical analysis of the play’s rich
interpretive and performative possibilities.
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