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The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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There’s really only one dud essay in the whole lot which, ironically, is on the subject that brought me here in the first place. I’m reading the Coventry cycle and it quickly became apparent that it’s not like other plays. The text is obviously a far smaller part of it than I’m used to and I needed something to make it accessible (I’m reading the EETS edition so there’s not the usual introduction you might get in a Penguin). The essays on the other cycles were very helpful, especially Beadle’s About the York cycle. Reading Coventry, it’s obviously a ritualised religious behaviour, but why go to all the effort when you’d think Catholicism would have enough ritual already. Beadle makes the interesting observation that the cycles began their life in the generation after the Black Death, so perhaps we’re seeing some sort of attempt at a massive communal magic spell. It didn’t work of course, but I certainly prefer this response to a pandemic than say, oh I don’t know, invading the Ukraine?
Most useful though is Meg Twycross’ essay on staging. This was exactly what I needed for the imagination. There’s also an essay on modern production which was helpful. ( )