The Mediaeval Stage Book I Minstrelsey Book Ii Folk Drama

Author : Edmund Kerchever Chambers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666320025
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Mediaeval Stage, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Edmund Kerchever Chambers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mediaeval Stage, Vol. 2 The discussions of the first volume have Often wandered far enough from the history of the stage. But two or three tolerable generalizations emerge. The drama as a living form Of art went completely under at the break-up of the Roman world a process of natural decay was accelerated by the hostility of Christianity, which denied the theatre, and by the indifference of barbarism, which had never imagined it. If anything of a histrionic tradition survived, it took the shape of pitiable farce, one amongst many heterogeneous elements in the spectacular of disreputable mimes. For the men of the Middle Ages, however, peasants or burghers, monks or nobles, such spectacula had a constant attraction and the persistence of the deep-rooted mimetic instinct in the folk is proved by the frequent outcrops of primitive drama in the course of those popular Observances which are the last sportive stage of ancient heathen ritual. Whether of folk or of minstrel origin, the ludi remained to the last alien and distasteful to the Church. The degradation Of Rome and Constantinople by the stage was never forgotten nor the association with an heathenism that was glossed over rather than extinct: and though a working compromise inevitably tended to establish itself, it remained subject to perpetual protest from the austerer Spirit in the counsels of the Clergy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.