La Farce de Maître Pathelin: Très Bonne Et Fort Joyeuse À Cinq Personnages (Litterature)
by Sans Auteur
The Civic Cycles (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern)
by Nicole Rice and Margaret Aziza Pappano
The civic religious drama of late medieval England—financed, produced, and performed by craftspeople—offers one of the earliest forms of written literature by a non-elite group in Europe. In this innovative study, Nicole R. Rice and Margaret Aziza Pappano trace an artisanal perspective on medieval and early modern civic relations, analyzing selected plays from the cities of York and Chester individually and from a comparative perspective, in dialogue with civic records. Positing a complex view o...
Journal Your Life's Journey
by Blank Book Billionaire and Journal Your Life's Journey
Now even young readers can enjoy Shakespeare's stories in a bold new retelling that captures the drama and adventure of the original plays.
New Directions in Early Modern English Drama (Late Tudor and Stuart Drama)
This collection examines some of the people, places, and plays at the edge of early modern English drama. Recent scholarship has begun to think more critically about the edge, particularly in relation to the canon and canonicity. This book demonstrates that the people and concepts long seen as on the edge of early modern English drama made vital contributions both within the fictive worlds of early modern plays, and without, in the real worlds of playmakers, theaters, and audiences. The book eng...
Myths & Legends Medieval Fantasy Larp System 2015 Edition
by Ryan R Harden
Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works (Late Tudor and Stuart Drama)
by Vanessa L. Rapatz
Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works attends to the religious, social, and material changes in England during the century following the Reformation, specifically examining how the English came to terms with the meanings of convents and novices even after they disappeared from the physical and social landscape. In five chapters, it traces convents and novices across a range of dramatic texts that refuse easy generic classification: problem plays such as Shakespeare's Measur...
Exploring medical writing in England in the 100+ years after the advent of the “Great Mortality”, this book examines the storytelling practices of poets, patients, and physicians in the midst of a medieval public health crisis and demonstrates how literary narratives enable us to see a kinship between poetry and the healing arts. Looking at how we can learn to diagnose a text as if we were diagnosing a body, Salisbury provides new insights into how we can recuperate the voices of those afflicted...
Drama and Sermon in Late Medieval England (Early Drama, Art, and Music) (Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph)
by Charlotte Steenbrugge
Included here are the texts, translations, musical transcriptions, and facsimiles of the Swedish music-dramas for Holy Week and Easter: Depositio, Elevatio, and Visitatio Sepulchri.
The Jeu d'Adam (Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph, #32) (Early Drama, Art, and Music)
Before he suddenly passed away, John W. Robinson was working on a manuscript that he saw as effecting a marriage between the dramatic and the theatrical, as he felt there was too large a divide between literary scholars and practitioners of the theater. In it, Robinson stated that his purpose it to expound as plays the New Testament plays of the Wakefield Master and some of the related York plays, including two by the York Realist. . . . hop[ing] to show that the meaning and effect of the Wakefi...
Boccaccio's collection of bawdy, comic and sometimes tragic tales, which had an enormous influence on English literature, notably on Chaucer.
The best-known of the Jacobean tragedies; an exemplary model of the -tragedy of blood.-