French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater

This book revives the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes.

Sommario

Introduction: from theatricality to theater; 1. 'Vocamus personagias': the enlivened figures of ephemeral stagings; 2. 'Ouvrez vos yeux et regardez': illuminated passion plays and the commemoration of performance; 3. 'Faire semblant': make-believe and the experience of heroic battles; 4. 'Cy s'ensuit le mystère': creating a spectator and a reader of French plays; 5. 'C'était qu'un jeu industrieux': artifice and authenticity in the devil's play; Conclusion: mysterious ends, 1548-77.

Info autore

Laura Weigert is Associate Professor of Art History at Rutgers University, New Jersey. She is the recipient of grants from the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Humboldt Foundation, and she was a Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and a Felix Gilbert Member at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her publications include Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity (2004) and articles in Art History, the Oxford Art Journal, Gesta, Studies in Iconography, The Art Bulletin, Art Journal and EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, as well as in numerous collections of essays.

Riassunto

French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater revives what was unique, strange, and exciting about the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes. Weigert brings together a wealth of visual artifacts to explore this tradition of late medieval performance.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Laura Weigert, Laura (Rutgers University Weigert, Weigert Laura
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781107040472
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04047-2
• Pagine: 305
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / France, ART / European, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Medieval History, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval