Pamela M. King

Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts (eBook, ePUB)

Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
Redaktion: Johnston, Alexandra F.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000263992
• Artikelnr.: 60431249

Autorenporträt

Pamela M. King was one of the founding members of Medieval English Theatre. She has held chairs in Medieval Studies at St Martin's College, Lancashire (now the University of Cumbria) and the University of Bristol, and is currently the holder of a fractional chair at the University of Glasgow. Her 2006 monograph The York Mystery Cycle and the Worship of the City won both the David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies, and the Beatrice White Prize from the English Association.

Alexandra F. Johnston is a professor emeritus of the Department of English, University of Toronto. She was the founding director of Records of Early English Drama in 1976. She co-edited the first edition of the REED series, York, with Dr Margaret Rogerson (née Dorrell) in 1979 and the second on-line edition in the REED series, Berkshire, in 2018. Many of her articles have appeared in journals and collections of essays. Her volume of selected articles was the fourth to appear in this series

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1. English Scriptural Plays 1. Faith, Reason and the
Prophets' dialogue in the Coventry Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors 2.
Playing Pentecost: Transformation and Texts 3. Lament and Elegy in
Scriptural Drama: Englishing the Planctus Mariae 4. The End of the World in
Medieval English Religious Drama 5. The Early English Passion Play 6.
Medieval English Religious Plays as Early Fifteenth-Century Vernacular
Theology: the Case Against Part 2. Drama and Poetry 7. Dunbar's The Golden
Targe: A Chaucerian Masque 8. 'He pleyeth Herodes upon a scaffold hye'? 9.
Drama: Sacred and Secular Part 3. Revivals, Survivals and Audiences -
Mostly about Spain 10. La Festa D'Elx: The Festival of the Assumption of
the Virgin, Elche (Alicante) 11. Elche Again: The Venida and the Semana
Santa 12. The Festa d'Elx: Civic Devotion, Display and Identity 13. Corpus
Christi, Valencia, 1993 14. Corpus Christi: Valencia 15 Confraternities and
Civic Ceremonial: the Siena Palio 16. Twentieth Century Medieval Drama
Revivals and the Universities Part 4. Ideology and Performance 17. Spatial
semantics and the medieval theatre 18. MINORITY PLAYS: Two Interludes for
Edward VI 19. Rules of Exchange in Medieval Plays and Play Manuscripts