Early English Performance

Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-17717-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Reihe: Variorum Collected Studies

Covering a period of nearly 40 years’ work by the author this collection of essays in the Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies series brings the perspective of a Drama academic and practitioner of early English plays to the understanding of how medieval plays and Robin Hood games of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were performed. It explores why, where, when, and how the plays happened, who took part, and who were the audiences. The insights are informed by a combination of research and the public presentation of surviving texts. The research included in the volume unites the early English experiences of religious and secular performance. This recognition challenges the dominant critical distinction of the past between the two and the consequent privileging of biblical and moral plays over secular entertainments. What further binds, rather than separates, the two is that the destination of funds raised by the different activities maintained the civic and parochial needs of the institutions upon which the people depended. This collection redefines the inclusive nature and common interests of the purposes that lay behind generically different undertakings. They shared an extraordinary investment of human and financial resources in the anticipation of a profit that was pious and practical. (CS1081).

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marshall, John

Butterworth, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Philip Butterworth

Part I: Dating, staging, and playing the Chester Whitsun Plays

1. 'The Chester Whitsun Plays: Dating of post-Reformation performances from the Smiths' accounts', Leeds Studies in English, n.s 9 (1977)

2. 'Players of the Coopers' pageant from the Chester Plays in 1572 and 1575', Theatre Notebook, 33 (1979)

3. '"The Manner of these Playes": The Chester pageant carriages and the places where they played', Staging the Chester Cycle, ed. by David Mills (Leeds, Leeds Texts and Monographs, 1985)

4. 'Nailing the six-wheeled waggon: A sideview', Medieval English Theatre, 12 (1985)

5. '"Walking in the air": The Chester shepherds on stilts', According to the Ancient Custom: Essays presented to David Mills, ed. by Philip Butterworth, Pamela M. King and Meg Twycross, Medieval English Theatre, 29 (2009 for 2007)

Part II: Who, where, when, and why: Non-cycle and single episode plays in performance

6. 'Marginal staging marks in the Macro manuscript of Wisdom', Medieval English Theatre, 7 (1985)

7. '"Her virgynes, as many as a man wylle": Dance and provenance in three late medieval plays; Wisdom/The Killing of the Children/The Conversion of St Paul', Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 25 (1994)

8. '"Fortune in worldys worschyppe": The satirising of the Suffolks in Wisdom', Medieval English Theatre, 14 (1994 for 1992)

9. '"O ye souerens that sytt and ye brothern that stonde right wppe", Addressing the audience of Mankind', in European Medieval Drama, 1 (1997), ed. by Sydney Higgins (Turnhout; Brepols)

Part III: Archiving the ephemeral: Contemporary depictions of performance and modern productions of medieval plays

10. 'The medieval English stage: A graffito of a hell-mouth./part contents

Über Autor(innen)

John Marshall has spent all of his academic career teaching in university departments of Drama. He taught in the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film and Television (now Department of Theatre), University of Bristol for 20 years. Following his retirement he was appointed Senior Research Fellow in Theatre at the University of Bristol, a post he continues to hold. He has published extensively in the areas of medieval English theatre and Robin Hood in performance. He has also acted in and directed productions of a wide range of plays from both categories.