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

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• 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