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Medieval Drama – An Anthology

Autor G Walker
en Paperback – 22 iul 2000
This comprehensive anthology brings together a diverse collection of dramatic writing from the late fourteenth century to the onset of the Renaissance. The volume presents for the first time the key plays of the period in their entirety, alongside more unusual selections, covering religious narrative, religion and conscience, and politics and morality.

The first section focuses on Biblical plays, including coherent sequences of the narrative Cycle plays from York and N-Town and supporting pageants from Chester and Wakefield. This approach allows a clear narrative line to develop, and permits the comparison of the treatment of key stories between the Cycles. The selected material demonstrates how the drama of the towns and cities of East Anglia and the North of England mediated religious culture to a heterodox urban audience, and explored biblical events in an intensely contemporary setting.

In the second and third sections, the attention turns to secular drama, and the Moral Plays and Interludes. The featured texts illustrate the range of themes and issues covered, from the salvation of the individual human soul to the renovation of the political nation, and the variety of settings and audiences for which the plays were designed. The flexibility of the Interlude form is explored, as are the ways in which it was utilised by playwrights and their patrons to address issues of direct political and social concern to them and their audiences.

Medieval Drama: An Anthology is an indispensable guide to the breadth and depth of dramatic activity in medieval Britain.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631217275
ISBN-10: 0631217274
Pagini: 648
Dimensiuni: 170 x 244 x 34 mm
Greutate: 1 kg
Ediția:00003
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

This is an anthology for graduates and postgraduates in Medieval Literature/Medieval Drama, also of interest to those studying the evolution of drama from medieval to renaissance, medieval English culture, and the English language (because of the extremely interesting dialects involved in the different regional cycles)

Descriere

This anthology of drama in English contains plays from the late 14th century to the onset of the Renaissance. It brings together selections from all the major dramatic genres to provide readers with a sense of the breadth and depth of dramatic activity in Britain in these years.