The Jeu d'Adam (Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph, #32) (Early Drama, Art, and Music)
Myths & Legends Medieval Fantasy Larp System 2015 Edition
by Ryan R Harden
La Farce de Maître Pathelin: Très Bonne Et Fort Joyeuse À Cinq Personnages (Litterature)
by Sans Auteur
The Worlde and the Chylde (Early Drama, Art, and Music, #26) (Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph, #26)
by Peter Happe
The Worlde and the Chylde, issued by the press of Wynkyn de Worde in 1521, is one of the very earliest plays published in England. It also has very considerable interest for its adaptation of the Ages of Man iconography, which is extensively treated in the introduction, notes, and illustrations.
The Children's Crusade
by Nancy Carpentier Brown and Frances Chesterton
Antony and Cleopatra (American Academy of Religion Cultural Criticism) (The Contemporary Shakespeare, #26)
by William Shakespeare
John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back. The edition, which began with The Tempest and ended with The Sonnets, put into practice the techniques and theorie...
The York Play of Corpus Christi, also known as the York Cycle, has been central to the study of early English theatre for over a century and a touchstone for the revival of medieval dramatic practice for over fifty years. But these two endeavours... have often found little common ground. This volume therefore accomplishes something very important. It brings together scholars of medieval English drama and places them in dialogue with experienced practtitioners from the community. Together, they s...
Early Performance: Courts and Audiences (Variorum Collected Studies)
by Sarah Carpenter
These essays of Sarah Carpenter have been selected to reflect her career’s close focus on the relationship of performance and audience. They are drawn from the last 25 years of her writing, and this has enabled the editors to organise them not chronologically but rather to develop her central theme through a range of genres, including morality plays, the interlude, court entertainments, international political spectacle, and the public ‘performances’ of natural and maintained fools. As a scholar...
This compelling volume contains ten articles drawn from papers presented at the Sixth Triennial Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of the Medieval Theatre. Each essay examines the fascinating connection between medieval art and medieval drama, which, when presented together in a single volume, comprehensively represent the wide range of approaches on the topic. The connections between medieval art and drama are explored in topics ranging from English mystery plays to the Assum...
This volume contains the first translation of the only three plays that survive from the medieval Arabic theater: the farces The Shadow Spirit, The Amazing Preacher and the Stranger, and The Love-Stricken One and the Lost One who Inspires Passion, created by Ibn Daniyal in thirteenth-century Cairo.