Medieval theatre performance : actors, dancers, automata and their audiences / edited by Philip Butterworth and Katie Normington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butterworth, Philip, editor.

Normington, Katie, 1964- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--History--Medieval, 500-1500.

Theater.

Performing arts--Europe--History--To 1500.

Performing arts.

Drama, Medieval.

Theater--Medieval.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2017.

Summary:

The nature, conditions and place of medieval theatre performance remain somewhat mysterious, with scholarship in the field tending to be devoted to its context, and to the texts themselves. The essays in this volume seek to address this omission. They consider such matters as the nature of performance in theatre/dance/puppetry/automata; the performed qualities of such events; the conventions of performed work; what took place in the act of performing; and the relationships between performers and witnesses, and what conditioned these relationships.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. From Archive to Repertoire: The Disguising at Hertford and Performing Practices / Claire Sponsler

2. Walk, Talk, Sit, Quit? On What Happens in Netherlandish Rhetoricians' Plays / Bart Ramakers

3. Performing Intrusions: Interaction and Interaxionality in Medieval English Theatre / Tom Pettitt

4. Player Transformation: The Role of Clothing and Disguise / Katie Normington

5. Pavilioned in Splendour: Performing Heaven in Fifteenth-Century Florence / Nerida Newbigin

6. Living Pictures: Drama without Text, Drama without Action / David Klausner

7. Performer-Audience Relationships in Fifteenth-and Sixteenth-century Danced Spectacles / Jennifer Nevile

8. Decadance in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of Choreomania / Kathryn Emily Dickason

9. Writing, Telling and Showing Horsemanship in Rhetoricians' Farce / Femke Kramer

10. Inanimate Performers: The Animation and Interpretive Versatility of the Palmesel / Max Harris

11. `Lyke unto a lyvelye thyng': The Boxley Rood of Grace and Medieval Performance / Leanne Groeneveld

12. The Mechanycalle `Ymage off Seynt Iorge' at St Botolph's, Billingsgate, 1474 / Philip Butterworth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-274) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781843844761

1843844761

OCLC:

994236846

Publisher Number:

99993021524