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Les mysteres : studies in genre, text and theatricality /

This collection of essays in English by scholars of international standing presents new insights into the contexts in which the fifteenth-century French mystères were created. It is centred upon the remarkable outburst of large-scale plays written for urban production and dealing with biblical and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Happé, Peter, Hüsken, Wim N. M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2012.
Colección:Ludus ; 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mystère, farce, moralité : a reflection upon the poetics of drama in the Middle Ages, based on Ms. BnF fr. 904, Passion de Semur (fifteenth century), and some other Burgundian manuscripts
  • The theatricality of pre- and post-performance French mystery play texts
  • Michel adapts Gréban : some aspects of the passion sequence
  • Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 617 : Mystères as convent drama
  • "Haro! Haro! Sus, dyablerie" : the theatricality of devils in temptation sequences
  • Le Mystère de Saint Sébastien's villain : "No cuckoo is a sparrowhawk"
  • La Pucelle and the Godons in the Mistère du Siège d'Orléans : civic pageant and popular tradition
  • "Laisser l'Istoire ... et moralisier ung Petit" : aspects of allegory in the Mystères
  • Turning Chanson de Geste into a mystery, or non-religious and chivalric mystery plays
  • Sermons in the Passions of Mercadé, Gréban and Jehan Michel
  • A typology of Catalan play manuscripts from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century.