Festive drama : papers from the Sixth Triennial Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Theatre, Lancaster, 13-19 July, 1989 / edited by Meg Twycross
1996, 1st edition. Cambridge ; Rochester, NY, USA : D.S. Brewer. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425818
ISBN: 0859914968
Physical description; viii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. 1 chapter is written in French. Contents; Some Approaches to Dramatic Festivity, especially Processions / Meg Twycross -- Festive Drama at Christmas in Aristocratic Households / Peter H. Greenfield -- Christmas at the Inns of Court / Olga Horner -- Rituals of Exclusion: Feasts and Plays of the English Religious Fraternities / Sheila Lindenbaum -- Festive Profit and Ideological Production: Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas / Claire Sponsler -- Masks in the Medieval Peninsular Theatre / Ronald E. Surtz -- Holy Week Performances of the Passion in Spain: Connections with Medieval European Drama / Rafael Portillo and Manuel J. Gomez Lara -- The Festa D'Elx: Civic Devotion, Display and Identity / Pamela M. King -- The Auto Da Fe as Medieval Drama / Robert Potter -- Forms and their Uses: The Antwerp Ommegangen, 1550-1700 / John Cartwright
Chester's Midsummer Show: Creation and Adaptation / David Mills -- The Wells Shows of 1607 / James Stokes -- The Bishop of Fools and his Feasts in Lille / Alan E. Knight -- Battles and Bottles: Shrovetide Performances in the Low Countries (c.1350-c.1550) / Marjoke de Roos -- Why a Peasant is Taught How to 'Shoot': Rhetoricians, Militiamen and a Late Medieval Dutch Farce / Femke Kramer -- Mankind: An English Fastnachtspiel? / Tom Pettitt -- Two Carnival Plays from Late-Medieval Denmark / Leif Sondergaard -- Analysing French Farce and Dutch Pre-Renaissance Comic Drama / Wim Husken -- Fastnachtspiel et recit bref: L'Interference de deux genres litteraires en Allemagne aux 15[superscript e] et 16[superscript e] siecles / Jean-Marc Pastre
Hocktide: A Reassessment of a Popular Pre-Reformation Festival / Sally-Beth Maclean -- 'Slawpase for the Myln-Whele': Seeing between the Lines / Malcolm Jones -- The Medieval English and French Shepherds Plays / Christine Richardson -- The Old Czech Apothecary as Clown and Symbol / Jarmila F. Veltrusky -- Carnival's End: Puritan Ideology and the Decline of English Provincial Theatre / John Coldewey. Subjects; Geschichte 1000-1700. Drama, Medieval History and criticism ; Congresses. Drama, Medieval. Drama. Medieval Drama. Drama, Medieval History and criticism. Festivals Europe Congresses. Festivals.
Carnival.
Price: €125.00