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Medieval theatre performance : actors, dancers, automata and their audiences /

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 performan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Butterworth, Philip (Editor ), Normington, Katie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • From archive to repertoire: the Disguising at Hertford and performing practices / Claire Sponsler
  • Walk, talk, sit, quit? On what happens in Netherlandish Rhetoricians' plays / Bart Ramakers
  • Performing intrusions: interaction and interaxionality in medieval English theatre / Tom Pettit
  • Player transformation: the role of clothing and disguise
  • Pavilioned in splendour: performing heaven in fifteenth-century Florence / Nerida Newbigin
  • Living pictures: drama without text, drama without action / David Klausner
  • Performer-audience relationships in fifteenth-and sixteenth-century danced spectacles / Jennifer Nevile
  • Decadance in the late Middle Ages: the case of Choreomania / Kathryn Emily Dickason
  • Writing, telling and showing horsemanship in Rhetoricians' farce / Femke Kramer
  • Inanimate performers: the animation and interpretive versatility of the Palmesel / Max Harris
  • 'lyke unto a lyvelye thyng': the Boxley Rood of grace and medieval performance / Leanne Groeneveld
  • The Mechanycalle 'Ymage off Seynt Iorge' at St Botolph's, Billingsgate, 1474 / Philip Butterworth.