Gender and Medieval Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Medieval Drama write by Katie Normington. This book was released on 2004. Gender and Medieval Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Evidence from Records of Early English Drama, social, literary and cultural sources are drawn together in order to investigate how performances within the late Middle Ages were both shaped by, and shaped, the public image of women."--BOOK JACKET.
Play time
Play time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Play time write by Daisy Black. This book was released on 2020-11-17. Play time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama. It charts conflicts staged between dramatic personae in plays that represent theological transitions, including the Incarnation, Flood, Nativity and Bethlehem slaughter. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with what it asserted was a superseded Jewish past, it asks how models of supersession and typology are subverted when placed in dramatic dialogue with characters who experience time differently. The book employs theories of gender, performance, anti-Semitism, queer theory and periodisation to complicate readings of early theatre’s biblical matriarchs and patriarchs. Dealing with frequently taught plays as well as less familiar material, the book is essential reading for specialist, undergraduate and postgraduate researchers working on medieval performance, gender and queer studies, Jewish-Christian studies and time.
Performing women
Performing women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing women write by Susannah Crowder. This book was released on 2018-08-31. Performing women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book takes on a key problem in the history of drama: the ‘exceptional’ staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Exploring the lives and performances of these previously anonymous women, the book brings the elusive figure of the female performer to centre stage. It integrates new approaches to drama, gender and patronage with a performance methodology to explore how the women of fifteenth-century Metz enacted varied kinds of performance that extended beyond the theatre. For example, decades before the 1468 play, Joan of Arc returned from the grave in the form of an impersonator named Claude. Offering a new paradigm of female performance that positions women at the core of public culture, Performing women is essential reading for scholars of pre-modern women and drama, and is also relevant to lecturers and students of late-medieval performance, religion and memory.
Female Mourning in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama
Female Mourning in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Female Mourning in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama write by Katharine Goodland. This book was released on 2006. Female Mourning in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. The author explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England; brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past; and addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were, after the Reformation, increasingly viewed as disturbing.
Medieval English Drama
Medieval English Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval English Drama write by Katie Normington. This book was released on 2013-04-30. Medieval English Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medieval English Drama provides a fresh introduction to the dramatic and festive practices of England in the late Middle Ages. The book places particular emphasis on the importance of the performance contexts of these events, bringing to life a period before permanent theatre buildings when performances took place in a wide variety of locations and had to fight to attract and maintain the attention of an audience. Showing the interplay between dramatic and everyday life, the book covers performances in convents, churches, parishes, street processions and parades, and in particular distinguishes between modes of outdoor and indoor performance. Katie Normington aids the reader to a fuller understanding of these early English dramatic practices by explaining the significance of the place of performance, the particularities of spectatorship for each event and how the conventions of the form of drama were manipulated to address its reception. Audiences considered range from cloistered members, congregations and parish members to urban citizens, nobles and royalty. Undergraduate students of literature of this period will find this an approachable and illuminating guide.
