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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457369903321

Autore

Sponsler Claire

Titolo

Drama and resistance [[electronic resource] ] : bodies, goods, and theatricality in late medieval England / / Claire Sponsler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 1997

ISBN

0-8166-8799-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Medieval cultures ; ; v. 10

Disciplina

822/.051609

Soggetti

English drama - To 1500 - History and criticism

Mysteries and miracle-plays, English - History and criticism

Christian drama, English (Middle) - History and criticism

Theater - England - History - Medieval, 500-1500

Moralities, English - History and criticism

Literature and society - England - History

Civilization, Medieval, in literature

Social history - Medieval, 500-1500

Social problems in literature

Human body in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-203) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction: Bodily Transactions: Performance, Identity, and Commodification; 1. Fashioned Subjectivity and the Regulation of Difference; 2. Counterfeit in Their Array: Cross-Dressing in Robin Hood Performances; 3. Conduct Books and Good Governance; 4. Mischievous Governance: The Unruly Bodies of Morality Plays; 5. Devoted Bodies: Books of Hours and the Self-Consuming Subject; 6. Violated Bodies: The Spectacle of Suffering in Corpus Christi Pageants; Afterword: Domination, Resistance, and the Consumer; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Claire Sponsler explores the intertwined histories of bodily subjectivity, commodity culture, and theatricality in late medieval England. In a fascinating consideration of popular drama in the period from 1350 to 1520, she argues that many types of performances during this time



represented cultural evasions of the imposition of disciplinary power.