Author: Sebastian I. Sobecki
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 184384513X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduces Skelton and his work to readers unfamiliar with the poet, gathers together the vibrant strands of existing research, and opens up new avenues for future studies.
Author: John Skelton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780719015243
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Van Dorsten
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1974-12
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9004618775
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ronald W. Vince
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1989-03-27
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vince has provided a useful and, for the most part, usable reference work. His introduction should be required reading for anyone approaching medieval theater. Choice Scholars increasingly see medieval theatre as a complex and vital performance medium related more closely to political, religious, and social life than to literature as we know it. Reflecting the current interest in performance, A Companion to the Medieval Theatre presents 250 alphabetically arranged entries offering a panoramic view of European and British theatrical productions between the years 900 and 1550. The volume features 30 essays contributed by an international group of specialists and includes many shorter entries as well as systematic cross-referencing, a chronology, a bibliography, and a full complement of indexes. Major entries focus on the theatres of the principal linguistic areas (the British Isles, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, and Eastern Europe), and on dramatic forms and genres such as liturgical drama, Passion and saint plays, morality plays, folk drama, and Humanist drama. Other articles examine costume, acting, pageantry, and music, and explore the theatrical dimension of courtly entertainment, the dance, and the tournament. Short entries supply information on over one hundred playwrights, directors, actors and antiquarians whose contributions to the theatre have been documented. This informative guide brings new depth to our appreciation of the richness and color of medieval public entertainments and the symbolism and pageantry that were a part of daily life in the Middle Ages. Designed to appeal to general reader, this volume is also an attractive choice for libraries serving students and scholars of theatre history, English and European literatures, medieval history, cultural history, drama, and performance.
Author: Glynne William Gladstone Wickham
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780231089388
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Glynne Wickham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-05
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1136288902
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660.
Author: W. D. Howarth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-04-26
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1000579212
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ever since comedies were first performed in the ancient world, the definition of the term ‘comedy’ has been debated by both playwrights and critics. Originally published in 1978, this volume does not attempt a precise definition, but reviews the various interpretations that have been put forward through the ages, taking as evidence important theoretical writings as well as the plays themselves, and pointing out not only common features but also notable exceptions. The comic drama of Western Europe since the Renaissance is here surveyed in a series of chapters devoted principally to the tradition of European comedy as it developed in the major national literatures. The perspective is expanded to include, on the one hand, the origins in classical Greece and Rome and, on the other, the influence of cinema, radio and television comedy at the time – American as well as European. A structural basis for the volume as a whole is provided in an analytical introduction, where the essential problems are defined: such issues as the relationship between comedy and satire, comedy and farce; the distinction between laughter and smile; the respective claims of realism and fantasy; the role of plot and of dialogue; the place of sentiment and of moral teaching; and the possibility of comic catharsis. In this way the nature and evolution of European comedy is presented in an original and coherent form, not only offering an invaluable aid to students seeking guidance in literature of which they are not making a specialist study, but stimulating the more experienced reader to think again about familiar plays.