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To Chester and Beyond: Meaning, Text and Context in Early English Drama

Author : David Mills
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000950360
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book To Chester and Beyond: Meaning, Text and Context in Early English Drama written by David Mills and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a selection of the major articles of David Mills (1938-2013), which along with similar volumes by Alexandra F. Johnston, Peter Meredith and Meg Twycross makes up a set of "Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies". Mills was one of these four key scholars whose work has changed what is known about English medieval drama and theatre. He made major contributions to understanding English medieval theatre in the widest sense but more specifically to the nature and development of medieval plays and their performance at Chester. The scope of his work from manuscript to performance has created new knowledge and insights brought about by his remarkable technical skill as an editor and researcher. His texts of the Chester Cycle of Mystery Plays have become the standard works. In the light of this outstanding research the volume is comprised of four sections: 1. Editors and Editing; 2. Cultural Contexts; 3. Staging and Performance; 4. Criticism and Evaluation. An editorial introduction opens the work.

Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts

Author : Pamela M. King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000263991
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts written by Pamela M. King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Early English Drama

Author : John C. Coldewey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135778892
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Early English Drama written by John C. Coldewey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of plays from late-medieval England includes a rich selection of noncycle plays and morality plays along with some of the better-known pageants from the cycle plays and some theatrical fragments never before anthologized. These plays and fragments illustrate the most widespread early theatrical practices in England and represent drama that fed directly into the Elizabethan theatrical experience.

Functions of Medieval English Stage Directions

Author : Philip Butterworth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000610691
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Functions of Medieval English Stage Directions written by Philip Butterworth and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we speak of theatre, we think we know what a stage direction is: we tend to think of it as an authorial requirement, devised to be complementary to the spoken text and directed at those who put on a play as to what, when, where, how or why a moment, action or its staging should be completed. This is the general understanding to condition a theatrical convention known as the 'stage direction'. As such, we recognise that the stage direction is directed towards actors, directors, designers, and any others who have a part to play in the practical realisation of the play. And perhaps we think that this has always been the case. However, the term 'stage direction' is not a medieval one, nor does an English medieval equivalent term exist to codify the functions contained in extraneous manuscript notes, requirements, directions or records. The medieval English stage direction does not generally function in this way: it mainly exists as an observed record of earlier performance. There are examples of other functions, but even they are not directed at players or those involved in creating performance. More than 2000 stage directions from 40 or so plays and cycles have been included in the catalogue of the volume, and over 400 of those have been selected for analysis throughout the work. The purpose of this research is to examine the theatrical functions of medieval English stage directions as records of earlier performance. Examples of such functions are largely taken from outdoor scriptural plays. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre, medieval history and literature.

The Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts, Records, and Staging

Author : Peter Meredith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351266020
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book The Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts, Records, and Staging written by Peter Meredith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected Studies CS1069 The essays selected for this volume reflect Peter Meredith’s major contribution to the revival and revision of academic and public interest in medieval English drama and theatre. A number of coinciding factors in the last quarter of the twentieth century brought together a group of scholars, represented here in the Shifting Paradigms series, determined to place the study of medieval drama in a broader context than that of solely reading texts. The publication of Records of Early English Drama, the University of Leeds facsimiles of medieval drama manuscripts, the establishment of the journal and annual meetings of Medieval English Theatre, brought a wider perspective to the discipline. And, by no means least, the bringing to bear of all these ground-breaking developments to the mammoth tasks of recreating in the public domain the original-staging of medieval plays. Peter Meredith had a hand in the formation and lasting influence of all these crucial innovations. The variety and depth of his comprehensive approach to the study of medieval drama and theatre is clearly evinced in each of the essays chosen for this volume.

The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance

Author : Pamela King
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317043669
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance written by Pamela King and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of early drama has undergone a quiet revolution in the last four decades, radically altering critical approaches to form, genre, and canon. Drawing on disciplines from art history to musicology and reception studies, The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance reconsiders early "drama" as a mixed mode entertainment best studied not only alongside non-dramatic texts, but also other modes of performance. From performance before the playhouse to the afterlife of medieval drama in the contemporary avant-garde, this stunning collection of essays is divided into four sections: Northern European Playing before the Playhouse; Modes of Production and Reception; Reviewing the Anglophone Tradition; The Long Middle Ages Offering a much needed reassessment of what is generally understood as "English medieval drama", The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance provides an invaluable resource for both students and scholars of medieval studies.

Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

Author : Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. written by Folger Shakespeare Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Symposium on Lexicography VII

Author : Arne Zettersten
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110937913
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Symposium on Lexicography VII written by Arne Zettersten and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexicographica. Series Maior features monographs and edited volumes on the topics of lexicography and meta-lexicography. Works from the broader domain of lexicology are also included, provided they strengthen the theoretical, methodological and empirical basis of lexicography and meta-lexicography. The almost 150 books published in the series since its founding in 1984 clearly reflect the main themes and developments of the field. The publications focus on aspects of lexicography such as micro- and macrostructure, typology, history of the discipline, and application-oriented lexicographical documentation.

Robert Thornton and His Books

Author : Susanna Fein
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1903153514
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Robert Thornton and His Books written by Susanna Fein and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections.

Julian Among the Books

Author : Julia Bolton Holloway
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443892513
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Julian Among the Books written by Julia Bolton Holloway and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian among the Books: Julian of Norwich’s Theological Library brings together innovative research on aspects of the Showing of Love, especially the Pan-European background of its manuscripts, and their contexts, arguing for the concept of ‘Holy Conversations’ in a mise en abyme, where her readers, breaking the frame, participate in her contemplative visions. It discusses the three versions of her text, her knowledge of Hebrew, and her Benedictine context and its lectio divina, including textual and physical links with the Norwich monk, Cardinal Adam Easton, OSB, his collegial friendship with St Catherine of Siena and St Catherine of Sweden, and his support for St Birgitta of Sweden’s canonisation. The book also explores the library of texts of the ‘Friends of God’ movement, including the Mirror of Simple Souls of Marguerite Porete, presents the texts of Julian’s conversation with Margery Kemp, and discusses the exiled Brigittine and Benedictine nuns who continued to treasure and copy Julian’s text on the Continent following England’s Reformation. Scholarly methods used in this study include palaeography, codicology, iconography, reader reception, discourse on the Body, use of Hebrew, Greek and Latin, and the concepts of ‘Holy Conversation’ and ‘Textual Communities’. It gives much of the text of the Westminster Manuscript in translation, along with many quotations from the Westminster, Paris and Sloane manuscripts in their original layout and spelling. Illustrated with colour plates of the Julian manuscripts in the centrefold and other images, and black and white figures throughout the body of the text, it brings the reader as close as possible to Julian’s writing, her context, and her preservation by other women contemplatives throughout time.

Staging Faith

Author : Victor I. Scherb
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638781
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Staging Faith written by Victor I. Scherb and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Illustrating this thesis through an examination of the plays themselves, Staging Faith explores how different modes of production resulted in different types of dramatic organization, different relationships between the audience and the dramatic action, and how dramatists exploited the symbolic and affective potential of different types of settings, props, and dramatic actions. The simple place-and-scaffold play accommodated an oppositional structure, one that could be embodied spatially in the arrangement of the scaffolds and further articulated in processional action. The symbolic images in these dramas often have a strongly devotional character and attempt to unite the play's audience around a central devotional object or scene."--BOOK JACKET.

The Chester Mystery Cycle

Author : Kevin J. Harty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317947428
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Chester Mystery Cycle written by Kevin J. Harty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993. Part of a series on medieval casebooks, this volume six looks at the Chester Mystery Cycle Play manuscripts and comparisons of the York and Chester Cycle. Theologically a product of the Middle Ages, historically a product of the Renaissance, what we today call the Chester Mystery Cycle is a series of twenty-four plays dramatizing the events of salvation history from Creation until Doomsday. One of four surviving English mystery cycles, the Chester Cycle, which originally included a twenty-fifth play of the Assumption surpressed sometime in the mid-sixteenth century, was, until more modern times, last performed in 1575.

The Cambridge History of the English Language

Author : Richard M. Hogg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521264761
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of the English Language written by Richard M. Hogg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the Cambridge History of the English Language covers the period 1476-1776, beginning at the time of the establishment of Caxton's first press in England and concluding with the American Declaration of Independence, the notional birth of the first (non-insular) extraterritorial English. It encompasses three centuries which saw immense cultural change over the whole of Europe: the late middle ages, the renaissance, the reformation, the enlightenment, and the beginnings of romanticism. During this time, Middle English became Early Modern English and then developed into the early stages of indisputably 'modern', if somewhat old-fashioned, English. In this book, the distinguished team of six contributors traces these developments, covering orthography and punctuation, phonology and morphology, syntax, lexis and semantics, regional and social variation, and the literary language. The volume also contains a glossary of linguistic terms and an extensive bibliography.

Literary Research and the Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Eras

Author : Dustin Booher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538138441
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Literary Research and the Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Eras written by Dustin Booher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Research and the Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Eras: Strategies and Sources is a guide to scholarly research in the field of medieval English literature covering the period 450 CE to 1500 CE. Graduate students and scholars researching this period face many challenges: working in two distinct literary traditions, comprehending multiple languages (Old English, Middle English, Latin, Anglo-Norman, and French), knowing the manuscript tradition for a particular title and the research methodologies for discovering and locating primary sources in the print and digital realms, and the awareness of the overlap and assimilation of literary themes with religious, historical, cultural, and political perspectives. The volume presents the best practices for building a foundation of sound scholarship practices in the field of medieval English literature. This volume explores primary and secondary resources, including general literary research guides; types of library catalogs; print and online bibliographies and indexes; scholarly journals and series; manuscripts, archives, and digital collections; genres; tools for understanding Old and Middle English such as dictionaries, lexicons, thesauri, glosses, etymologies, palaeographies, and text mining tools; and Web resources. The final chapter researches the shifting reputation of the poet, Thomas Hoccleve. Given the interdisciplinary nature of medieval studies, an appendix of additional readings in art, history, music, philosophy, religion, science, social sciences, and theater is provided.

Medieval English Drama

Author : Sidney E. Berger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429514670
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Medieval English Drama written by Sidney E. Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, Medieval English Drama is an exhaustive bibliography of scholarship on medieval English drama. Each item has been annotated in the bibliography with considerable care; these annotations are descriptive rather than critical and give a clear synopsis of the content of each reference, the texts with which it deals, and a brief indication of its critical position. The bibliography is divided into two sections; editions and collections of plays, and critical works. The bibliography is exhaustive rather than selective and provides English annotations for foreign language works, as well as a list of reviews for most books. The book covers liturgical and folk drama, other forms of entertainment, and related material useful to researchers in the field. The book provides an update of sources not listed in Carl J. Stratman's comprehensive Bibliography of Medieval Drama published in 1972.

Reading and Writing in Shakespeare

Author : David M. Bergeron
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780874135572
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Reading and Writing in Shakespeare written by David M. Bergeron and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1996 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume of essays explores reading and writing in Shakespeare and his culture. Shakespeare as a worker and writer straddled a margin between an oral, customary world and a literate world of specializing professionals in a way that no subsequent writer ever could. With the 1623 Folio edition, Shakespeare completed the transformation from an active dramatist to an author of a book, collected by his friends and now available to readers."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Music in Early English Religious Drama: Minstrels playing

Author : Richard Rastall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859915854
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Music in Early English Religious Drama: Minstrels playing written by Richard Rastall and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1996 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEDIUM AEVUM says of Heaven Singing, the general discussion of the subject from which the present volume follows on with examination of the individual plays: 'A formidable achievement, indispensable for any serious and comprehensive study of early English drama.'