LEADER 04098nam 2200685 450 001 9910464724003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0947-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812209471 035 $a(CKB)3710000000093083 035 $a(OCoLC)876431898 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10848432 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001256394 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11737739 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001256394 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11259009 035 $a(PQKB)10911515 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442349 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33009 035 $a(DE-B1597)449829 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812209471 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442349 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10848432 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682572 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000093083 100 $a20131001h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe queen's dumbshows $eJohn Lydgate and the making of early theater /$fClaire Sponsler 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (317 p.) 225 1 $aMiddle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51290-6 311 $a0-8122-4595-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Abbreviations --$tIntroduction: Theater History as a Challenge to Literary History --$tChapter 1. Shirley?s Hand --$tChapter 2. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: London Mummings and Disguisings --$tChapter 3. Performing Pictures --$tChapter 4. Performance and Gloss: The Procession of Corpus Christi --$tChapter 5. Inscription and Ceremony: The 1432 Royal Entry --$tChapter 6. Edible Theater --$tChapter 7. The Queen?s Dumbshows --$tChapter 8. On Drama?s Trail --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aNo medieval writer reveals more about early English drama than John Lydgate, Claire Sponsler contends. Best known for his enormously long narrative poems The Fall of Princes and The Troy Book, Lydgate also wrote numerous verses related to theatrical performances and ceremonies. This rich yet understudied body of material includes mummings for London guildsmen and sheriffs, texts for wall hangings that combined pictures and poetry, a Corpus Christi procession, and entertainments for the young Henry VI and his mother. In The Queen's Dumbshows, Sponsler reclaims these writings to reveal what they have to tell us about performance practices in the late Middle Ages. Placing theatricality at the hub of fifteenth-century British culture, she rethinks what constituted drama in the period and explores the relationship between private forms of entertainment, such as household banquets, and more overtly public forms of political theater, such as royal entries and processions. She delineates the intersection of performance with other forms of representation such as feasts, pictorial displays, and tableaux, and parses the connections between the primarily visual and aural modes of performance and the reading of literary texts written on paper or parchment. In doing so, she has written a book of signal importance to scholars of medieval literature and culture, theater history, and visual studies. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aTheater$zEngland$xHistory$yMedieval, 500-1500 606 $aEnglish drama$yTo 1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a821/.2 700 $aSponsler$b Claire$0943216 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464724003321 996 $aThe queen's dumbshows$92470868 997 $aUNINA