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Titolo |
The Cambridge companion to medieval English theatre / / edited by Richard Beadle [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1994 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxii, 372 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Cambridge companions to literature |
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Theater - England - History - Medieval, 500-1500 |
Bible plays, English - History and criticism |
Christian drama, English (Middle) - History and criticism |
English drama - To 1500 - History and criticism |
Theater - Production and direction - England - History |
Mysteries and miracle-plays, English - History and criticism |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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An introduction to medieval English theatre / William Tydeman -- The theatricality of medieval English plays / Meg Twycross -- The York cycle / Richard Beadle -- The Chester cycle / David Mills -- The Towneley cycle / Peter Meredith -- The N-Town plays / Alan J. Fletcher -- The non-cycle plays and East Anglican tradition / John C. Coldewey -- The Cornish medieval drama / Brian O. Murdoch -- Morality plays / Pamela M. King -- Saints' plays / Darryll Grantley -- Modern productions of medieval English plays / John Marshall -- A guide to criticism of medieval English theatre / Peter HappeĢ. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike. This book provides an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary, and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. After a general introduction there are chapters devoted to each of the major regional cycles, the less-well known East Anglian and Cornish |
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traditions, the morality drama and saints' plays. Two illustrated chapters are devoted to the performance of medieval plays, in their own time and in recent modern revivals. A full reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an extensive classified bibliography and a chronological table. |
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