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We know little about the nature of medieval performance and have generally been content to think of it in relation to more modern productions, not least because of the sparsity of existing evidence. Consequently, whilst much research has been undertaken into its contexts, there has been relatively little scholarly investigation into the conditions of perfommance itself. This book seeks to address this omission. It looks at such questions as the nature of performance in theatre/dance/puppetry/automata; the performed qualities of such events; the conventions of performed work; what took place in the act of performing; and the relationships between performers and witnesses, and what conditioned them. Philip Butterworth is Visiting Research Fellow in the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds, where he was formerly Reader in Medieval Theatre and Dean for Research; Katie Normington is Senior Vice Principal (Academic) at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is also Professor of Drama. Contributors: Kathryn Emily Dickason, Leanne Groeneveld, Max Harris, David Klausner, Femke Kramer, Jennifer Nevile, Nerida Newbigin, Tom Pettitt, Bart Ramakers, Claire Sponsler.

Performing arts. --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- Theater --- Performing arts --- Drama, Medieval. --- History --- European drama --- Medieval drama --- Plays, Medieval --- Moralities --- Mysteries and miracle-plays --- To 1500 --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Audience. --- Dance History. --- Dance. --- Drama. --- European Studies. --- Medieval Studies. --- Medieval drama. --- Medieval performance. --- Middle Ages. --- Performance. --- Performing Arts. --- Puppetry: Automata. --- Theatre History. --- Theatre. --- Theatrical performance. --- medieval audience.

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The book presents a theory of relationships between the forms of devotion and early drama genres. The historical background is the circumstances of the Church becoming independent of the Empire. A theological and philosophical aspect of the transformation of piety at the time was the specification of the ontological status of the sacred (spiritualization) and "shifting it to Heaven" (transcendentalization). In opposition to a theory of Western civilization as a process of increasing individual self-control, the author argues for the need to take into account purely religious conditions (the idea of recapitulation). This allows the author to develop a holistic aesthetics for the religiously inspired creativity in the period spanning the 11th-15th centuries and to propose a new typology of medieval drama.

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This book presents a detailed survey and analysis of the surviving corpus of biblical drama from all parts of medieval Christian Europe. Over five hundred plays from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries are examined, in a wide-ranging discussion which makes available the full scope of this important part of theatre history. The volume is specially organised to provide a complete overview of major aspects of medieval biblical theatre, including: the theatrical community of both audience and players; the major plays and cycles; and the legacy of medieval biblical theatre. The book also includes valuable appendices with information on the liturgical calendar, processions, the Mass and the Bible. The Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe is a valuable resource for scholars and students of medieval theatre and for enthusiasts of early drama.

Comparative literature --- Drama --- anno 500-1499 --- Europe --- Drama, Medieval --- Religious drama --- History and criticism. --- 82:2 --- 82 "04/14" --- -Religious drama --- -Drama --- Religious literature --- European drama --- Medieval drama --- Plays, Medieval --- Moralities --- Mysteries and miracle-plays --- Literatuur en godsdienst --- Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--Middeleeuwen --- History and criticism --- -Literatuur en godsdienst --- 82 "04/14" Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--Middeleeuwen --- 82:2 Literatuur en godsdienst --- -82:2 Literatuur en godsdienst --- -European drama --- Drama [Medieval ] --- Religious drama - History and criticism.

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Essays on aspects of early drama.

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Comparative literature --- Drama --- anno 1200-1499 --- Europe: North --- 792.033 --- Drama, Medieval --- -Popular culture --- Theater --- -Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- European drama --- Medieval drama --- Plays, Medieval --- Moralities --- Mysteries and miracle-plays --- Middeleeuws theater --- History and criticism --- -Congresses --- Congresses. --- History --- -792.033 --- -Middeleeuws theater --- 792.033 Middeleeuws theater --- -Comparative literature --- -792.033 Middeleeuws theater --- Dramatics --- -Drama, Medieval --- Popular culture --- Culture --- History and criticism&delete& --- Congresses --- History&delete& --- Literature, Medieval. --- Medieval theatre --- Morality plays