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The Fleury Playbook
Essays and StudiesEach essay covers a unique topic in the study of the Playbook, utilizing a diverse set of methodological tools and interdisciplinary approaches for subjects which have not heretofore received adequate scholarly attention. The topics at hand are each of significant interest to the field at large.
€ 36,95 -
Norwegians in Michigan
Chronicles the settlement of a people who became quintessentially Midwestern. This title shows how Norwegians took advantage of opportunities when they began settling in Michigan in the nineteenth century. It is illustrated with photographs, maps, and documents.
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John Lydgate, The Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse Macabre
"[…], Davidson’s and Oosterwijk’s volume [...] offers a deeply researched, wide-ranging, and profoundly valuable overview of major Anglo-French contributions to the broader danse macabre tradition." - Elizaveta Strakhov, University of Marquette, USA, in Speculum, 2023 "[…] this volume is a tour-de-force and there can be little doubt that it will stand the test of time and be widely accepted as a standard work." - Sally Badham, in: Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture, 7, 4, 2021
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Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain
’The book adds much to our knowledge of the occasions on which plays were shown and performances authorized. The reader will admire Davidson's diligence with archives...’ Times Literary Supplement 'Festivals and Plays offers thoughtful readings of some important northern biblical dramas and contains a valuable survey of dramatic activity associated with the religious festivals of late medieval and early modern Britain.' Medium Aevum 'As a study of the range and variety of playing at festivals in the late Middle Ages, it is both astute and accessible and will appeal to all scholars and students of medieval drama and theatre history.' Notes and Queries
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History, Religion, and Violence
Cultural Contexts for Medieval and Renaissance English DramaProfessor Davidson is concerned here with charting public theatrical display as a barometer of developments in the English Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book brings together 12 previously published articles on historical and religious aspects of the early English theatre and an original essay.
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A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge
Clifford Davidson's newly revised and expanded edition of A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge makes available the longest and most significant text of dramatic criticism in Middle English.
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The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays
One of the greatest medieval drama cycles in England was mounted annually at Coventry at Corpus Christi until suppressed in 1579 and is of particular importance because it was almost certainly seen by William Shakespeare when he was a boy in nearby Stratford-upon-Avon.
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The York Corpus Christi Plays
The feast of Corpus Christi, was devoted to the Eucharist, and the normal practice was to have solemn processions through the city. In this way the people might be stimulated to devotion and brought symbolically, even mystically into a relationship with the central moments of salvation history.
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Studies in Late Medieval Wall Paintings, Manuscript Illuminations, and Texts
This volume is an interdisciplinary consideration of late medieval art and texts, falling into two parts: first, the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, and second, Carthusian studies treating fragmentary wall paintings in the Carthusian monastery near Coventry;
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Emblem, Iconography, and Drama
Eight iconographic studies by American, Australian, and British scholars that focus on Shakespeare and his contemporaries and on the interconnectedness of their art with the visual language of their time. Reprinted from Comparative Drama.
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Fools and Folly
The Fool in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period was either a person who capitalized on his natural deficiencies, which were then considered amusing, or a professional entertainer who specialized in clowning. His role is best known to us through the plays of Shakespeare. Indispensable analyses of the Fool from a number of different perspectives.
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Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama
This book is designed to open up a broader scope of study which calls attention to both social organization and material culture as integrally related to the civic drama of England in cities such as Coventry, York and Chester.
€ 30,50