From page to performance : essays in early English drama / edited by John A. Alford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alford, John A., 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Mysteries and miracle-plays, English--History and criticism.

Mysteries and miracle-plays, English.

Christian drama, English (Middle)--History and criticism.

Christian drama, English (Middle).

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

English drama--To 1500--History and criticism.

Bible plays, English--History and criticism.

Bible plays, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a collection of 22 essays by scholars in the field of Medieval Drama, mostly relating to performance both past and present. Alford wrote one essay in the book.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Mass as Performance Text; 2. From Mappa Mundi to Theatrum Mundi: The World as Stage in Early English Drama; 3. Asleep Onstage; 4. Acting Mary: The Emotional Realism of the Mature Virgin in the N-Town Plays; 5. The Performance of Some Wakefield Master Plays on the University of Illinois Campus; 6. The Problem with Mrs. Noah: The Search for Performance Credibility in the Chester Noah's Flood Play; 7. The Theaters of Everyman; 8. "My Name is Worship": Masquerading Vice in Medwall's Nature; 9. Plays, Players, and Playwrights in Renaissance Oxford

10. English Chronicle Contexts for Shakespeare's Death of Richard II11. Family by Death: Stage Images in Titus Andronicus and The Winter's Tale; 12. Bearing "A Wary Eye": Ludic Vengeance and Doubtful Suicide in Hamlet; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-87013-884-7

0-585-31642-2

OCLC:

45733216