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Medieval Theatre Performance: Actors, Dancers, Automata and Their Audiences

Medieval Theatre Performance: Actors, Dancers, Automata and Their Audiences

Butterworth, Philip
Normington, Katie
Ramakers, Bart

Hardcover

Literary CriticismTheater History

ISBN10: 1843844761
ISBN13: 9781843844761
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Sep 15 2017
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Investigations into the realities of staging dramatic performances, of a variety of kinds, in the middle ages.

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 perfomance 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, andwhat 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.

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