The City and the Parish

Drama in York and Beyond: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4724-7888-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Reihe: Variorum Collected Studies

Collected Studies CS1062

This volume brings together a selection of the major articles of Alexandra F. Johnston, which along with similar volumes by the late David Mills, Peter Meredith and Meg Twycross makes up a set of "Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies". Alexandra Johnston, the founding director of the research project, Records of Early English Drama, is one of these four key scholars whose work has had a profound influence on the study of medieval and early modern English drama.

This collection of essays focuses especially on the York plays: on the Mercers’ documents that initiated the project itself; on the theology and christology of the plays; on the relationship between the plays and contemporary administrative bodies, both civic and national; and on the performance of the York plays in modern times. A further group of articles considers documentary evidence for the wide range of drama and mimetic ceremony in the Midlands and the West Country, reinforcing our understanding that these events took place predominately on a local parish level. The collection is rounded out with a survey of the immense changes that our reading of early English drama have undergone over the past half century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnston, Alexandra F.

Klausner, Edited By David N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. York records / 2. Other records / 3. Suppression and Change / 4. Theory/Theology / 5. Performance / 6. Summing up

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandra F. Johnston is Professor emerita at the University of Toronto, Canada.

David Klausner is professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.