Street scenes: late medieval acting and performance

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Abstract

Street Scenes offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The performance theory perspective employed here, along with the examination of actor/character dialectics, paves the way to understanding both religious theatre and the complexity of late medieval theatricalities
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Number of pages183
Edition1st
ISBN (Print)0230606652, 9780230606654
StatePublished - 2011

Publication series

NameThe New Middle Ages
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

Keywords

  • Theater -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
  • Christian drama, English (Middle) -- History and criticism
  • Mysteries and miracle-plays, English
  • Performing arts -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
  • Theater -- Great Britain -- Medieval, 500-1500
  • Rites and ceremonies, Medieval
  • מנהגים וטקסים, ימי הביניים -- בריטניה -- היסטוריה
  • תיאטרון -- בריטניה -- תקופת ימי הביניים, 500-1500
  • אמניות הבמה -- בריטניה -- היסטוריה -- עד 1500
  • מחזות תעלומה ונסים, אנגלית -- היסטוריה וביקורת
  • דרמה נוצרית, אנגלית (תיכונה) -- היבטים דתיים -- נצרות
  • المسرح -- أبعاد دينيّة -- المسيحيّة
  • Tretise of miraclis pleyinge

ULI Keywords

  • uli
  • Tretise of miraclis pleyinge
  • Christian drama, English (Middle) -- History and criticism
  • Mysteries and miracle-plays, English -- History and criticism
  • Performing arts -- England -- History -- To 1500
  • Rites and ceremonies, Medieval -- England -- History
  • Theater -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
  • Theater -- England -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500
  • British Library -- Manuscript -- Additional 24202, fol. 14-21
  • Treatise of miraclis pleyinge
  • Sermon against miracle-plays
  • Theater -- England -- History -- 15th century
  • Theater -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500

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