The Medieval Theatre in the Round
Author | : Richard Southern |
Publisher | : New York : Theatre Arts Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Richard Southern |
Publisher | : New York : Theatre Arts Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Richard Southern |
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Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Arena theater |
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Author | : Richard William Southern |
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Release | : 1957 |
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Author | : Richard Southern |
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Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Arena theater |
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Author | : John Connell |
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Release | : 1957 |
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Author | : Sydney Higgings |
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Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Arena theater |
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Author | : Richard Southern |
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Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1957 |
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Author | : Glynne William Gladstone Wickham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1987-07-09 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521312486 |
This is a thoroughly revised edition of Glynne Wickham's important history of the development of dramatic art in Christian Europe. Professor Wickham surveys the foundations on which this dramatic art was built: the architecture, costumes and ceremonial of the imperial court at Byzantium, the liturgies of countires in the Eastern and Western Empires and the triumph of the Roman rite and the Romanesque style in Western art. Within this context Professor Wickham describes three major influences upon the drama: religion, recreation and commerce. The first produced the liturgical music drama rooted in praise of Christ the King, vernacular Corpus Christi drama, Saint Plays and Moralities centred on the humanity of Christ. The second gave rise to the secular theatres of social recreation based on the games and dances of village communities ad the more sophisticated sex and war games of the nobility. The section on commerce shows how the development of the drama was intimately related to questions of funding and management which led, during the sixteenth century, to the substitution of a professional for an amateur theatre, and to a growing emphasis on stage spectacle. For this third edition the author has added a substantial section on monastic reform and its effect on Biblical translation and the use of allegory; a final chapter charts the transition in different European countries from this medieval Gothic theatre to the neoclassical methods of play construction and representation which flourished for the next two hundred years. The book gorges a coherent pattern through a very large and complicated subject. It is an excellent introduction to medieval theatre for undergraduates and to the growing number of theatregoers who enjoy contemporary revivals of medieval plays. A large plate section gives a pictorial version of the story, using photographs of contemporary manuscript illuminations, mosaics, frescoes, paintings and sculptures.
Author | : Sydney Higgins |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781484947050 |
The important and rich collection of medieval plays from Cornwall has, in the past, been all but ignored by the majority of drama historians and critics. In this book, Sydney Higgins shows why this is a mistaken and ill-informed view. The oldest of the three surviving manuscripts is the Cornish Cycle - performed on three consecutive days - that is probably the earliest surviving British drama script. Next is 'Buenans Meriasek' ('The Life of St. Meriasek') that is the only full-length medieval saint's play to have survived in the literature of Great Britain. The last of the three, 'The Creation of the World' is the first day of another Biblical play. In the manuscript of the Cornish Cycle, there is a plan of the theatre for each of the three days and there are two similar ones in 'St. Meriasek'. Apart from these five, the only other other plan of a British medieval theatre that has survived is of 'The Castle of Perseverance'. Like those for the Cornish plays, it is circular. Among the many important conclusions in the detailed and meticulously researched examination of the staging of the Cornish plays is that the medieval circular theatres are far more likely to have been the inspiration for the circular theatres of Shakespeare's age than the highly unlikely notion that their origin arose from a pageant waggon being parked in a rectangular inn yard. * * * Winner of the 2014 HOLYER AN GOF PUBLISHERS' AWARD for Non-Fiction - History, Language and Creative Arts. * * * This reviewer found of particular interest Sydney Higgins's lucid reconstruction of the playing in the round. 'Theatre Research International'. vol. 26, no. 1, p.117 Insightful scrutiny of staging ... a full and detailed analysis. 'European Medieval Drama - 2', Brepols, p.200.
Author | : William Tydeman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521293044 |
William Tydeman covers central aspects of western European theatre from the Dark Ages to the building of the first public theatres towards the end of the sixteenth century.