The Mediaeval Stage (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (735 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486292290 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 960 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Informative and questionable I loved the background and insight E.K. Chambers provides in this book, although it must be said at the outset that while it was written as a scholarly work at its time, some of the material has been called into question. Nevertheless, Chambers gives a fine overview of the history of European theater, festivals and holy day celebrations, traci. The Medieval Stage Riordin This book is a wonderfully detailed record of theatre as it developed form the early liturgical tropes into the medieval theatre that precursered the Elizabethan that we know so well.An excelent resource for anyone wishing to study the origins of english theatre. Highly recommended.. Edward Kyle Jones said masterfully done!. Few have the gift for presenting color to 'the thing' observed as E.K. does! Buy it, never come out of it.
“The best book on the early drama ever written in English.” — Modern Language Notes.This comprehensive, groundbreaking work — the first to examine the history of medieval theater from an English viewpoint — considers the many different conditions that existed in the institution by the sixteenth century, just prior to the establishment of the great Shakespearean stage.Thoroughly researched and meticulously documented, this monumental reference brims with a vast amount of material recording the history of theater in the Middle Ages — from the demise of ancient Roman theater in the fourth century A.D. Chambers provides enormously learned yet highly readable accounts of early theater in which scenes from the Christian liturgy were played out, the appearance of the ludi — performances at village feasts and festivals; miracle and morality plays, puppet shows, dramatic pageants, mimes, mummers, and gaudily dressed minstrels; reenactments of St. K. George slaying the dragon and the adventures of “Robyn Hod”; the introduction of disguises and masks in the early 1500s, and much more.Originally published in two volumes — bound here as one — The Mediaeval Stage “is an important a
. From Library Journal Published as two volumes in 1903, this massive history of medieval theater by noted Shakespeare scholar and critic Chambers is no doubt still one of the most extensive treatments of the subject.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc