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Essays on aspects of early drama, including in this volume a focus
on the Towneley plays. Editors: Sarah Carpenter, Pamela M. King,
Meg Twycross, Greg Walker. Medieval English Theatre is the premier
journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of
interest: it publishes articles on theatreand pageantry from across
the British Isles up to the opening of the London playhouses and
the suppression of the civic mystery cycles, and also includes
contributions on European and Latin drama, together with analyses
of modernsurvivals or equivalents, and of research productions of
medieval plays. This volume includes essays on spectatorship,
audience reception and records of early drama, especially in
Scotland, besides engaging with the current interest in the
Towneley Plays and the history of its manuscript.
This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela
M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early
English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the
'living' traditions of performances in Spain, discussing their
origins and the modes of production that are used. Several articles
use modern literary theory on aspects of early drama, whilst others
consider drama in the context of late medieval poetry. The volume
also includes a rich collection of articles on English scriptural
plays from surviving manuscripts.
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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.
This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela
M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early
English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the
'living' traditions of performances in Spain, discussing their
origins and the modes of production that are used. Several articles
use modern literary theory on aspects of early drama, whilst others
consider drama in the context of late medieval poetry. The volume
also includes a rich collection of articles on English scriptural
plays from surviving manuscripts.
An investigation into the connections between the York Plays,
religious observance, and the role played by the city itself.
WINNER of the 2007 David Bevington Prize The York Play is the
earliest near-complete English civic mystery cycle. It evolved
constantly throughout its long performance history, but the text
that was recorded in the YorkRegister shows that it was already a
mature and elaborate civic festival by the time it was written
down. This study uncovers the Cycle's connection with worship in
York, in the sense both of devotional practice and of civichonour,
informing a particular period in the cultural history of the city.
The pageants in the Register show in their different ways how the
community which devised and performed the Cycle regarded the
celebration of the great summer feast of Corpus Christi. Moreover
the principles of selection that give the Cycle its structure
reflect the broader pattern of the liturgical calendar, with its
other feasts and fasts. The Cycle bears witness not only to
thepractices of religious observance in York, but also to the
ecclesiastical politics in which the city was caught up from the
very beginning of the fifteenth century. PAMELA KING is Professor
of Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol.
Essays on aspects of early drama. 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 mystery cycles, and
also includes contributions on European and Latin drama, together
with analyses of modern survivals or equivalents, and of research
productions of medieval plays. This volume comprises the second
half of the Festschrift presented to John J. McGavin (of which
volume 27 is the first); its essays reflect and honour many of his
interests. The subjects addressed include ceremonial (a coronation
and a grand funeral), audience reception and spectatorship of many
kinds, Welsh drama, the role of women in the production of libels,
and the structure of didactic dialogue plays. A special addition is
the late David Mills'last essay, on the Abraham Sacrifiant of
Theodore Beze. Contributors: Mishtooni Bose, Elisabeth Dutton,
Alice Hunt, Pamela M. King, David N. Klausner, David Mills, Sue
Niebrzydowski, Nadia Therese van Pelt, Charlotte Steenbrugge, Eila
Williamson
The Yearbook of English Studies 2013 is devoted to early English
drama, ranging from what is generally understood as 'medieval' to
plays of the early Tudor period, while also including chapters on
modern theatrical responses to the surviving corpus of texts. The
volume is edited by Pamela King (Professor of English at the
University of Glasgow), Sue Niebrzydowski (Senior Lecturer in
Medieval English Literature at Bangor University, Wales) and Diana
Wyatt (Research Associate at the University of Durham). This rich
and varied collection is deliberately loosely ordered in order to
encourage the reader to think again about the old canonical
categories, particularly 'mysteries' and 'moralities'. The authors
lead the reader to engage with recent scholarship in the field
which has, for example, drawn on archival research into lost plays
to question old certainties about genre, about chronology, and
about evolution, and which has taken another look at surviving
texts in ways that resist categorization, and found them to be more
problematic than hitherto assumed. This volume does not aim to
offer coverage of new work in a known field, so there is, for
example, no essay dedicated to the York Cycle, although references
to it are shot through the whole. Rather, individual chapters
reflect not only their authors' specialist sub-fields but also a
variety of approaches, from the study of sources and the
materiality of surviving witnesses to the texts, to various
critical readings and approaches, to studies in the history of
staging. In addition, essays on modern productions stake the claim
for a new and distinct area in the study of medievalism, as modern
authors and producers draw inspiration from the original early
scripts. The reader will encounter old favourites in this volume -
the Towneley Plays, the Chester Cycle, The Castle of Perseverance,
Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, to name a few - as well as
Bewnans Ke, the Cornish saint's play discovered only in 1999, and
an intriguing mixture of hagiography and Arthuriana. Equally, the
reader will be led to reconsider some lesser-read texts and to
encounter traces of wonderful plays which have been lost forever.
Overall, the volume seeks to engage with a dramatic tradition which
was at once richer and more varied than has been conventionally
imagined.
The annual Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of
Manuscripts and Printing History is published by Pace University
Press. The greater part of each volume is devoted to four or five
substantial essays on the history of the book, with emphasis on the
period of transmission from manuscript to print. The main focus is
on English and continental works produced from 1350 to 1550. In
addition, the journal includes brief notes on manuscripts and early
printed books, descriptive reviews of recent works in the field,
and notes on libraries and collections.
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