Böcker av Meg Twycross

Newest research into drama and performance of the Middle Ages and Tudor period.

Newest research into drama and performance of the middle ages.Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles on theatre and pageantry from across the British Isles up to the opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the civic mystery cycles, and also includes contributions on European and Latin drama, together with analyses of modern survivals or equivalents, and of research productions of medieval plays. This volume features essays on stagecraft, performance, and reception across a wide range of theatrical genres. Overlapping themes include a return to the York Corpus Christi Play, the practicalities of pageant waggon construction and maintenance, mechanical stage effects, international influences, East Anglian theatre and "e;folk"e; happenings, academic Latin drama, and private gentry festivities. Contributors include Jamie Beckett, Phil Butterworth, Peter Happe, James McBain, Tom Pettitt, James Stokes, and Diana Wyatt.

Essays on festive drama - plays, pageantry and traditional ceremonies - of the European middle ages, with comparative material.

Some characters in some medieval English mysteries wore masks. Why should this have been and what did it contribute to the plays and their performance? This study seeks to historicize and contextualize the moments and patters of mask-wearing in the Middle Ages.