The Chester Mystery Plays - 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 The Chester Mystery Plays write by Maurice Hussey. This book was released on 1957. The Chester Mystery Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
York Mystery Plays
York Mystery Plays - 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 York Mystery Plays write by Richard Beadle. This book was released on 1999-06-17. York Mystery Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection printed here. The shape of the cycle was governed by subject matter of enduring spiritual significance, both to its contemporary audience and in later literary and artistic tradition, and the selection reflects these concerns. Included are plays on the Creation, the Fall of Man, the Incarnation, Passion, and Resurrection of Christ, and the Last Judgement. The Passion sequence has been expanded by six of the eight plays generally attributed to the great poetic dramatist known as the York Realist: the authentic text of these plays is not otherwise available in paperback. As well as providing detailed annotation, this edition offers an introduction which examines the history of the cycle and discusses the immensely popular modern productions in York and elsewhere. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Wakefield Mystery Plays
The Wakefield Mystery Plays - 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 The Wakefield Mystery Plays write by Martial Rose. This book was released on 1969. The Wakefield Mystery Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The complete cycle of thirty-two plays.
The English Mystery Plays
The English Mystery Plays - 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 The English Mystery Plays write by Rosemary Woolf. This book was released on 1980-01-01. The English Mystery Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important new study of the English mystery plays has a twofold purpose. It is concerned to investigate the antecedents of the four extant cycles and to demonstrate the dramatic value of the plays themselves The opening and concluding chapters place the plays in their historical context by discussing on the one hand the emergence and achievements of genuine religious drama (as opposed to liturgical drama) in the twelfth century and on the other the changes in taste that threw the plays into disrepute in the sixteenth century. The man part of the book analyzes the plays in detail, considering the iconographic and theological traditions that guided the dramatists in their treatment of biblical subject-matter, and also looking at the Continental drama of the time to find out what other dramatic possibilities were open to writers in the Middle Ages. -- From publisher's description.
Shakespeare's Medieval Craft
Shakespeare's Medieval Craft - 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 Shakespeare's Medieval Craft write by Kurt A. Schreyer. This book was released on 2014-08-01. Shakespeare's Medieval Craft available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Shakespeare's Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city’s cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects—as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors—to the Shakespearean stage.As Schreyer shows, the Chester Banns serve as a paradigm for how Shakespeare’s theater might have reflected on and incorporated the mystery play tradition, yet distinguished itself from it. For instance, he demonstrates that certain material features of Shakespeare’s stage—including the ass’s head of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theatrical space of Purgatory in Hamlet, and the knocking at the gate in the Porter scene of Macbeth—were in fact remnants of the earlier mysteries transformed to meet the exigencies of the commercial London playhouses. Schreyer argues that the ongoing agency of supposedly superseded theatrical objects and practices reveal how the mystery plays shaped dramatic production long after their demise. At the same time, these medieval traditions help to reposition Shakespeare as more than a writer of plays; he was a play-wright, a dramatic artisan who forged new theatrical works by fitting poetry to the material remnants of an older dramatic tradition.
