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The N-Town Plays

Author : Victor I Scherb
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444385
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The N-Town Plays written by Victor I Scherb and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1400s in eastern England, a scribe was in the process of compiling a large dramatic manuscript of over two hundred vellum folios. The manuscript contains components of an independent Mary Play, parts one and two of an independent Passion Play and an independent Assumption of Mary Play, as well as ten play subjects that appear in no other English cycles - the killing of Lamech in the Noah Play, the Root of Jesse, the story of Joachim and Anne, the Presentation of Mary in the Temple, the Parliament of Heaven, the Trial of Mary and Joseph, the scene of Mary and the cherry tree in the Nativity Play, the Death of Herod, the scene of Veronica's handkerchief in the Procession to Calvary, and the appearance of the risen Christ to the Virgin Mary in her Assumption Play. This edition acknowledges the N-Town compiler who took plays from various contexts and integrated them into an existing cycle of plays, thus treating the manuscript as if it were a superstructure whose parts could be replaced, renovated, and supplemented without altering the fundamental coherence of the overarching design.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre

Author : Richard Beadle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827928
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre written by Richard Beadle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table.

The Mary Play from the N. Town Manuscript

Author : Peter Meredith
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Mary Play from the N. Town Manuscript written by Peter Meredith and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1987 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mary Play is a beautiful and engaging piece of late medieval stagecraft. It is rich in music and spectacle, and is the only English play which deals with the parents of the Virgin Mary and with her early life; the only play which centers on a prayer, the Ave Maria; the only play which in its devotional intensity reflects the central concerns of the late fifteenth century lay piety.

The N-town Plays and Medieval Picture Cycles

Author : Patrick J. Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The N-town Plays and Medieval Picture Cycles written by Patrick J. Collins and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Chester Mystery Plays

Author : Maurice Hussey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chester Mystery Plays written by Maurice Hussey and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The N-town Play

Author : Stephen Spector
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197224113
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book The N-town Play written by Stephen Spector and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes are one of the four extant Middle English cycles of mystery plays. A collection of unknown origin, N-Town contains forty-one plays, dramatizing divine history from Creation to Doomsday and illustrating ways of reading, supplementing and altering biblical accounts. The collection is rich in textual information testifying about the alteration and expansion of the text. The language of the plays advance knowledge of the history of English. The plays provide instructions in the fundamental elements of medieval Christianity and explain much about forms of consolation and self-fortification that were available in the late Middle Ages.

Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints

Author : Theresa Coletti
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201647
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints written by Theresa Coletti and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sinner-saint who embraced then renounced sexual and worldly pleasures; a woman who, through her attachment to Jesus, embodied both erotic and sacred power; a symbol of penance and an exemplar of contemplative and passionate devotion: perhaps no figure stood closer to the center of late medieval debates about the sources of spiritual authority and women's contribution to salvation history than did Mary Magdalene, and perhaps nowhere in later medieval England was cultural preoccupation with the Magdalene stronger than in fifteenth-century East Anglia. Looking to East Anglian texts including the N-Town Plays, The Book of Margery Kempe, The Revelations of Julian of Norwich, and Bokenham's Legend of Holy Women, Theresa Coletti explores how the gendered symbol of Mary Magdalene mediates tensions between masculine and feminine spiritual power, institutional and individual modes of religious expression, and authorized and unauthorized forms of revelation and sacred speech. Using the Digby play Mary Magdalene as her touchstone, Coletti engages a wide variety of textual and visual resources to make evident the discursive and material ties of East Anglian dramatic texts and feminine religion to broader traditions of cultural commentary and representation. In bringing the disciplinary perspectives of literary history and criticism, gender studies, and social and religious history to bear on specific local instances of dramatic practice, Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints highlights the relevance of Middle English dramatic discourse to the dynamic religious climate of late medieval England. In doing so, the book decisively challenges the marginalization of drama within medieval English studies, elucidates vernacular theater's kinship with influential late medieval religious texts and institutions, and articulates the changing possibilities for sacred representation in the decades before the Reformation.

The Castle of Perseverance

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780341751014
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Castle of Perseverance written by Anonymous and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Medieval Drama

Author : Greg Walker
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780631217275
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Drama written by Greg Walker and published by Blackwell Publishing. This book was released on 2000-10-03 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of drama in English contains plays from the late 14th century to the onset of the Renaissance. It brings together selections from all the major dramatic genres to provide a sense of the breadth and depth of medieval dramatic activity.

The Theatre of Medieval Europe

Author : Eckehard Simon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521385148
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Medieval Europe written by Eckehard Simon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together the work of thirteen internationally recognized scholars of early drama to give a comprehensive account of recent findings in the field.

The N-town Plays

Author : Peter Meredith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The N-town Plays written by Peter Meredith and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The N-Town Play

Author : Penny Granger
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The N-Town Play written by Penny Granger and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2009 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full examination of the N-Town Play, arguing for its reappraisal as a work of private devotion as well as public performance.

The orthodoxy of the 'N-Town' plays

Author : David John Gale Freemantle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book The orthodoxy of the 'N-Town' plays written by David John Gale Freemantle and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain

Author : Clifford Davidson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754660521
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain by : Clifford Davidson

Download or read book Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain written by Clifford Davidson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive survey to date of medieval festival playing in Britain, this study presents an inclusive view of the drama in the British Isles. It offers detailed readings of individual plays-including the little studied Bodley plays, among others - as well as a summary of what is known of their production. Organized around the rituals of the liturgical seasons, the book clarifies the relationship between liturgical feast and dramatic celebration.

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.

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Author : John Leeds Barroll
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636411
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England written by John Leeds Barroll and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies as well as book reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realized in its drama exclusive of Shakespeare.

Staging Conventions in Medieval English Theatre

Author : Philip Butterworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139991949
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Staging Conventions in Medieval English Theatre written by Philip Butterworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was medieval English theatre performed? Many of the modern theatrical concepts and terms used today to discuss the nature of medieval English theatre were never used in medieval times. Concepts and terms such as character, characterisation, truth and belief, costume, acting style, amateur, professional, stage directions, effects and special effects are all examples of post-medieval terms that have been applied to the English theatre. Little has been written about staging conventions in the performance of medieval English theatre and the identity and value of these conventions has often been overlooked. In this book, Philip Butterworth analyses dormant evidence of theatrical processes such as casting, doubling of parts, rehearsing, memorising, cueing, entering, exiting, playing, expounding, prompting, delivering effects, timing, hearing, seeing and responding. All these concerns point to a very different kind of theatre to the naturalistic theatre produced today.