Drama And Resistance : Bodies, Goods, and Theatricality in Late Medieval England

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Claire Sponsler explores the intertwined histories of bodily subjectivity, commodity culture, and theatricality in late medieval England. In a fascinating consideration of popular drama in the period from 1350 to 1520, she argues that many types of performances during this time represented cultural...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sponsler, Claire
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Theater > Medieval.
Social problems in literature.
Social history > Medieval.
Mysteries and miracle-plays, English.
Moralities, English.
Literature and society.
Human body in literature.
English drama.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Christian drama, English (Middle)
Corps humain dans la litterature.
Problemes sociaux dans la litterature.
Histoire sociale > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Civilisation medievale dans la litterature.
Moralites anglaises > Histoire et critique.
Theâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Theâtre chretien anglais (moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Mysteres et miracles anglais > Histoire et critique.
Theâtre anglais > Jusqu'à 1500 > Histoire et critique.
Litterature et societe > Angleterre > Histoire.
Social history > Medieval, 500-1500.
Moralities, English > History and criticism.
Theater > England > History > Medieval, 500-1500.
Christian drama, English (Middle) > History and criticism.
Mysteries and miracle-plays, English > History and criticism.
English drama > To 1500 > History and criticism.
Literature and society > England > History.
Literature and society > England > History > To 1500.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Introduction: Bodily Transactions: Performance, Identity, and Commodification; 1. Fashioned Subjectivity and the Regulation of Difference; 2. Counterfeit in Their Array: Cross-Dressing in Robin Hood Performances; 3. Conduct Books and Good Governance; 4. Mischievous Governance: The Unruly Bodies of Morality Plays; 5. Devoted Bodies: Books of Hours and the Self-Consuming Subject; 6. Violated Bodies: The Spectacle of Suffering in Corpus Christi Pageants; Afterword: Domination, Resistance, and the Consumer; Notes; Index.

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