Author : Phoebe S. Spinrad
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : 0814204430
Author : John Skelton
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 1908
Category : English literature
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 1908
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : John Skelton
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Andrea Louise Young
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137446072
The earliest complete morality play in English, The Castle of Perseverance depicts the culture of medieval East Anglia, a region once known for its production of artistic objects. Discussing the spectator experience of this famed play, Young argues that vision is the organizing principle that informs this play's staging, structure, and narrative.
Author : Victor I. Scherb
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780838638781
"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.
Author : John Skelton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0429860218
First published in 1906, this edition of Magnyfycence aimed to highlight the true significance of the play within both the canon of John Skelton’s work and English drama. Robert Lee Ramsay situates Magnyfycence as a morality play which functioned as a bridge between medieval miracle plays and the modern comedy. He demonstrates the text’s significance as the first example of a play by an English man of letters and our first example of a secular and literary rather than theological morality play. This edition features an extensive scholarly introduction exploring areas such as the staging, versification, sources and characterisation, followed by the Middle-English text itself along with glosses.
Author : Hermann Ulrici
Publisher :
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 1876
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Author : John D. Cox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2000-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139426958
John Cox tells the intriguing story of stage devils from their earliest appearance in English plays to the closing of the theatres by parliamentary order in 1642. The book represents a major revision of E. K. Chambers' ideas of stage devils in The Medieval Stage (1903), arguing that this is not a history of gradual secularization, as scholarship has maintained for the last century, but rather that stage devils were profoundly shaped from the outset by the assumptions of sacred drama and retained this shape virtually unchanged until the advent of permanent commercial theatres near London. The book spans both medieval and Renaissance drama including the medieval Mystery cycles on the one hand, through to plays by Greene, Marlowe, Shakespeare (1 and 2 Henry VI), Jonson, Middleton and Davenant. An appendix lists all known devil plays in English from the beginning to 1642.
Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 1865
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