The mystery plays and other drama of the English Middle Ages are perennially popular with students and theater audiences alike. This book gives an up-to-date account of the field, aimed at students of English literature and theater, as well as showing how the plays can be appreciated by the theater-going public in modern productions. It introduces new readers to famous mystery cycles such as those of Chester and York, and to great morality plays such as Everyman. There is a strong emphasis on theatricality, with numerous illustrations and valuable reference material.
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"Each essay on the plays presents a richly detailed discussion of manuscript and sources, literary interpretation, staging and audience....The collection benefits from research into both medieval theatrical practice and modern productions....the Companion makes impressive use of manuscript and staging studies." Times Literary Supplement
"The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre goes past the old assumptions to take a fresh approach to the material....This is an excellent introduction to the medieval English theatre." Small Press
"The writing in this volume is scholarly and erudite but also eminently readable. This book will be of great interest to the casual theater lover as well as theater historians." Charles Neuringer, American Reference Books Annual
"The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the early English stage since it presents work by a very knowledgeable group of scholars whose essays will be useful to the beginning student and the advanced scholar alike." Clifford Davidson, Speculum
"The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre goes past the old assumptions to take a fresh approach to the material....This is an excellent introduction to the medieval English theatre." Small Press
"The writing in this volume is scholarly and erudite but also eminently readable. This book will be of great interest to the casual theater lover as well as theater historians." Charles Neuringer, American Reference Books Annual
"The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the early English stage since it presents work by a very knowledgeable group of scholars whose essays will be useful to the beginning student and the advanced scholar alike." Clifford Davidson, Speculum
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Mystery plays and other drama of the English Middle Ages are perennially popular with students and theater audiences alike. This text introduces readers to famous mystery cycles such as those of Chester and York, as well as great morality plays such as Everyman.
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processional staging, generall processyon, civic cycle, individual pageants, processional performance, pageant wagons, medieval drama, wagon production, medieval theatre, staging arrangements, vernacular drama, early drama, mystery cycles, cycle texts, pageant masters, early theatre, medieval plays, secular drama, folk drama, moral play, processional route Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Corpus Christi, East Anglian, Wakefield Master, Mary Magdalen, Proclamation Play, Bury St Edmunds, Beunans Meriasek, Mary Play, Old Testament, British Library, Middle English, Origo Mundi, Holy Rood, Ordo Paginarum, Last Supper, Cotton Vespasian, David Mills, Hick Scorner, Meg Twycross, Peter Meredith, Croxton Play, Holy Spirit, The Four Elements, Clarendon Press, Glynne Wickham New!
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During the last few decades, the 'new theme' of medieval English theatre may be said to have swelled beyond all expectation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
processional staging, generall processyon, civic cycle, individual pageants, processional performance, pageant wagons, medieval drama, wagon production, medieval theatre, staging arrangements, vernacular drama, early drama, mystery cycles, cycle texts, pageant masters, early theatre, medieval plays, secular drama, folk drama, moral play, processional route Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Corpus Christi, East Anglian, Wakefield Master, Mary Magdalen, Proclamation Play, Bury St Edmunds, Beunans Meriasek, Mary Play, Old Testament, British Library, Middle English, Origo Mundi, Holy Rood, Ordo Paginarum, Last Supper, Cotton Vespasian, David Mills, Hick Scorner, Meg Twycross, Peter Meredith, Croxton Play, Holy Spirit, The Four Elements, Clarendon Press, Glynne Wickham New!
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- Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis by Sir David Lindsay on 4 pages
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- Medieval Drama by David Bevington on 4 pages
- Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (Canongate Classic) by David Lindsay on 4 pages
- The Hours of Etienne Chevalier by Jean Fouquet on page 57, page 58, and page 288
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- Defining Acts: Drama And The Politics Of Interpretation In Late Medieval England by Ruth Nisse on 8 pages
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- The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Deanne Williams in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama (Studies in Early English Drama) by Elza C. Tiner on page 70, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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