Claire Sponsler

The Queen's Dumbshows

John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Claire Sponsler is Professor of English at the University of Iowa and author of a number of books, including Ritual Imports: Performing Medieval Drama in America, winner of the Barnard Hewitt Award of the American Society for Theatre Research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780812245950
• ISBN-10: 0812245954
• Artikelnr.: 40054877

Autorenporträt

Claire Sponsler

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Theater History as a Challenge to Literary History
Chapter 1. Shirley's Hand
Chapter 2. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: London Mummings and Disguisings
Chapter 3. Performing Pictures
Chapter 4. Performance and Gloss: The Procession of Corpus Christi
Chapter 5. Inscription and Ceremony: The 1432 Royal Entry
Chapter 6. Edible Theater
Chapter 7. The Queen's Dumbshows
Chapter 8. On Drama's Trail
Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments