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Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Contributor(s): Stillman, Robert E.

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 ISBN: 9004149287     ISBN-13: 9789004149281
Publisher: Brill
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2006
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Annotation: This is a wide-ranging collection of essays from a variety of critical perspectives exploring alternative ways of understanding the entertainments, mystery plays, civic pageants, courtly masques, and professional dramas of late Medieval and Renaissance England.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- History | Europe - Renaissance
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: 822.309
LCCN: 2005058258
Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
Physical Information: 286 pages
Features: Illustrated
 
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Publisher Description:
No volume about the spectacles and public performances of early modern England could pretend to treat comprehensively a body of materials so conspicuously vast. Rather than efforts to survey the territory, these essays are best understood in the original sense of the term as "essays"--as trials, attempts, experiments to open alternative ways of understanding that vast corpus of mystery plays, civic pageants, court masques and professional dramas that constitute its subject. The book crosses traditional period lines, including studies of Medieval as well as Renaissance entertainments. Once more, the essays are not organized according to a single critical or historical methodology. They employ an eclectic range of interpretive practices, reflecting the variety of interpretive approaches now current in the field.

Contributors include: Tiffany J. Alkan, Robert W. Barrett, Jr., Sarah Beckwith, Tom Bishop, Peter Cockett, Richard K. Emmerson, Peter Holland, Nora Johnson, Richard C. McCoy, Lauren Shohet, and Robert E. Stillman.
 
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