Drama, Play, and Game - English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Theatrum and the Rhetoric of Abuse in the Middle Ages2. Miracula, Ludi inhonesti, "Somergames," and the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge3. Communitas: The Ludi of Monasteries and Cathedrals, Towns and Parishes4. Civitas: Drama and the City5. Texts and Performances6. The Matter of These Plays7. Variety in the Dramas of East Anglia8. The Persistence of "Medieval Drama" in the Tudor and Elizabethan PeriodsAppendix I. References to Miracula, Miracles, and Steracles in Medieval and Early Modern EnglandAppendix II. Communitas: The Play of Saints in Late Medieval and Tudor EnglandWorks CitedIndex

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Summary

This text demonstrates that the theatrum repudiated by medieval clerics was not "theatre" as we understand the term today. The author contends that critics have misrepresented Western stage history because they have assumed that theatrum designates a place where drama is performed.

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• Authors: Lawrence M. Clopper
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2001
• EAN: 9780226110301
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11030-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 624 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies