Book Description
This volume is a study of the development of the city of York as a place and as a community between 1068 and 1350.
Author : Sarah Rees Jones
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : History
ISBN : 019820194X
This volume is a study of the development of the city of York as a place and as a community between 1068 and 1350.
Author : D. M. Palliser
Publisher :
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0199255849
Provides a comprehensive history of what is now considered England's most famous surviving medieval city, covering nearly a thousand years
Author : Surtees Society
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 1897
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Gray's Inn. Library
Publisher :
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Sarah Rees Jones
Publisher : Borthwick Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780903857673
Author : David Michael Smith
Publisher : Borthwick Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 1999
Category : York (England)
ISBN : 9780903857789
Author : Philip Butterworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1000531783
In this selection of research articles Butterworth focuses on investigation of the practical and technical means by which early English theatre, from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, was performed. Matters of staging for both 'pageant vehicle' and 'theatre-in-the-round' are described and analysed to consider their impact on playing by players, expositors, narrators and prompters. All these operators also functioned to promote the closely aligned disciplines of pyrotechnics and magic (legerdemain or sleight of hand) which also influence the nature of the presented theatre. The sixteen chapters form four clearly identified parts—staging, playing, pyrotechnics and magic—and drawing on a wealth of primary source material, Butterworth encourages the reader to rediscover and reappreciate the actors, magicians, wainwrights and wheelwrights, pyrotechnists, and (in modern terms) the special effects people and event managers who brought these early texts to theatrical life on busy city streets and across open arenas. The chapters variously explore and analyse the important backwaters of material culture that enabled, facilitated and shaped performance yet have received scant scholarly attention. It is here, among the itemised payments to carpenters and chemists, the noted requirements of mechanics and wheelwrights, or tucked away among the marginalia of suppliers of staging and ingenious devices that Butterworth has made his stamping ground. This is a fascinating introduction to the very ‘nuts and bolts’ of early theatre. Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre is a closely argued celebration of stagecraft that will appeal to academics and students of performance, theatre history and medieval studies as well as history and literature more broadly. It constitutes the eighth volume in the Routledge series Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies and continues the valuable work of that series (of which Butterworth is a general editor) in bringing significant and expert research articles to a wider audience. (CS 1105).
Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Genealogy
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Author : Colin R. Chapman
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780806316130
"It has long been an article of faith that the census of 1841 was the first British census to list the names of individuals. In nearly 90 pages of text, accompanied by unique notes and references to original documents, Mr. Chapman explodes this myth by describing hundreds of pre-1841 name lists (censuses, poll lists, national surveys, tax lists, parish enumerations, etc.), explaining most of them, as far as possible, in their historical framework. As logic would dictate, the work follows a chronological pattern, and for this new fifth edition the author has appended, in Appendix I, a county-by-county breakdown of the various censuses containing individuals' names with the dates of those censuses; and for completeness, in Appendix II, he has added a list of decennial censuses containing names of individuals from 1801 to 1831. This new fifth edition, completely rewritten, incorporates over 200 additional listings for Ireland, making it a unique chronological account of censuses and enumerations in the British Isles from 1086 to 1841"--Publisher's description.
Author : Margaret Rogerson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1903153352
Essays on the York Mystery Plays, uniting voices from the scholarly world with the York community that has assumed responsibility for their production today. The York Play of Corpus Christi, also known as the York Cycle, has been central to the study of early English theatre for over a century and a touchstone for the revival of medieval dramatic practice for over fifty years. But these two endeavours... have often found little common ground. This volume therefore accomplishes something very important. It brings together scholars of medieval English drama and places them in dialogue with experienced practtitioners from the community. Together, they share a common commitment to understanding how performances matter to the communities that produce them, and how plays intersect with other public activities. CAROL SYMES, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana. This volume provides a wealth of new insights into the performance of mystery plays in medieval York and their modern revival. It utilises both academic study, and the practical experience of those who now produce the cycle within York itself on wagons in the street, in an approximation of their original performance. A number of topics are covered. The manuscript is linked to Richard III; the Masons are introduced as non-guildsmen in an enterprise assumed to be guild-specific; families, not just male heads of households, are shown to be important to the dramatic narrative; and cognitive theory elucidates performance past and present.Recent productions are discussed in lively detail by those directly responsible for them, leading to analyses of performances in Israel, Spain, and Australia, not all of them of a predictable kind, which offer further angles on the medieval dramatic tradition. Professor Margaret Rogerson teaches in the Department of English at the University of Sydney. Contributors: Margaret Rogerson, Keith Jones, Richard Beadle, Sheila K. Christie,Mike Tyler, Jill Stevenson, Elenid Davies, Ben Pugh, Peter Brown, Tony Wright, Steve Bielby, Emma Cunningham, Alan Heaven, Linda Ali, Paul Toy, Gweno Williams, John Merrylees, David Richmond, Alexandra F. Johnston, Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, Pamela M. King