Format:
1 online resource (viii, 107 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781800105362
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9781843846307
Content:
〈i〉Medieval English Theatre〈/i〉 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 edition combines, perhaps unexpectedly, royalty and games. Games of all kinds, from jousting and 'Christmas games' to those usually associated with children, are shown, it is suggested, to be more than they at first appear. Apparently run-of-the-mill entertainments, when presented to the court by the Londoners, by the court to a visiting emperor, or by the retainers of royalty and nobility to the general public for commercial gain, turn out to have unexpected political resonances; while the potential underlying sadism of children's games gains a horrific immediacy when diverted to the torturing of Christ. In the process we learn a great deal more about the detail of these games, from the maskerie costumes of James VI and Anna of Denmark to the elaborate fantasy challenges of the jousters in 1400/1401, which incidentally suggest that fourteenth-century court culture, whose language was Anglo-French, is a major missing link in the history of what is usually treated as purely English literature.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Dec 2023)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781843846307
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781843846307
Language:
English
Author information:
Dutton, Elisabeth M. 1972-
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