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Informationen zum Autor Philip Butterworth is Reader in Medieval Theatre at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries! University of Leeds. He is the author of Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in Early English and Scottish Theatre! and has published widely in journals on the subject of Medieval Theatre! including essays in 'Medieval English Theatre'. He is currently working! with Joslin McKinney! on The Cambridge Introduction to Scenography! to be published in 2006. Klappentext This study explores the performance of magical tricks! illusions! effects! and their staged appearance in theatre from the medieval period to the seventeenth century. Performers who created such magic were not known as conjurors! as we might refer to them today! but as jugglers. Records concerning jugglers on the medieval stage have been hitherto misunderstood or misapplied. These references to jugglers on the medieval stage are re-examined in the light of references to 'feats of activity' that also include tumbling! vaulting! and 'dancing on the rope'; appearances and disappearances in respect of 'Now you see it! now you don't' and stage versions of these concepts. Zusammenfassung Magic on the Early English Stage is an original study of conjuring tricks and stage magic from medieval times to the seventeenth century. Butterworth investigates! for the first time! the nature of the work of the 'jugglers'! their skills and the relationship between individual jugglers and magic performed 'on stage'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Jugglers: the creators of magic; 2. Feats of activity: juggling, tumbling and dancing on the rope; 3. Conveyance and confederacy; 4. Appearances and disappearances; 5. Magic through sound; 6. Mechanical images, automata, puppets and motions; 7. Substitution; 8. Stage tricks; 9. Terminology; Appendix 1. Edward Melton's Text; Appendix 2. Wily Beguiled (1606); Appendix 3. Beggars' Bush (1622); Appendix 4. The Knave in Graine (1640)....
