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Queen''s Dumbshows
John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater

English · Hardback

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Claire Sponsler is Professor of English at the University of Iowa and author of a number of books, including Ritual Imports: Performing Medieval Drama in America, winner of the Barnard Hewitt Award of the American Society for Theatre Research.


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Claire Sponsler is Professor of English at the University of Iowa and author of a number of books, including Ritual Imports: Performing Medieval Drama in America, winner of the Barnard Hewitt Award of the American Society for Theatre Research.


Summary

The Queen's Dumbshows explores the importance of John Lydgate's mummings and entertainments for literary and theatrical history, rethinking what constitutes "drama" in late medieval England and what role it played in public life.

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Authors Claire Sponsler
Assisted by Ruth Mazo Karras (Editor)
Publisher University of pennsylvania pr
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 18.04.2014
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
 
EAN 9780812245950
ISBN 978-0-8122-4595-0
Pages 320
 
Series The Middle Ages Series
Middle Ages
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages Series
Subjects Performing Arts
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
 

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