The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University - 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 Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University write by Thomas Meacham. This book was released on 2020-01-20. The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a truly paradigm-shifting study that reads a key text in Latin Humanist studies as the culmination, rather than an early example, of a tradition in university drama. It persuasively argues against the common assumption that there was no "drama" in the medieval universities until the syllabus was influenced by humanist ideas, and posits a new way of reading the performative dimensions of fourteenth and fifteenth-century university education in, for example, Ciceronian tuition on epistolary delivery. David Bevington calls it "an impressively learned discussion" and commends the sophistication of its use of performativity theory.
Performance and the Middle English Romance
Performance and the Middle English Romance - 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 Performance and the Middle English Romance write by Linda Marie Zaerr. This book was released on 2012. Performance and the Middle English Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed, uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner. Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves. Linda Marie Zaerr is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State University.
Medieval afterlives
Medieval afterlives - 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 afterlives write by Daisy Black. This book was released on 2024-05-28. Medieval afterlives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval afterlives brings new insight to the ways in which peoples in the sixteenth century understood, manipulated and responded to the history of their performance spaces, stage technologies, characterisation and popular dramatic tropes. In doing so, this volume advocates for a new understanding of sixteenth-seventeenth century theatre makers as highly aware of the medieval traditions that formed their performance practices, and audiences who recognised and appreciated the recycling of these practices between plays.
Thomas Chaundler and Academic Drama
Thomas Chaundler and Academic 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 Thomas Chaundler and Academic Drama write by Thomas J. Meacham. This book was released on 2012. Thomas Chaundler and Academic Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Previous scholarship has claimed that university drama did not exist (at Oxford or Cambridge) before the Tudor period. To support this claim, scholars have repudiated medieval pedagogy, in particular, for being unable to generate the kinds of "exploratory" forms of inquiry that would later allow university drama to occur in the early sixteenth century through humanist pedagogy. I contend that medieval or scholastic pedagogy is capable of producing dynamic forms of entertainment and that a vibrant tradition of medieval university drama and performance did occur throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This performance tradition has been unrecognized by scholars not only because of inaccurate assumptions about medieval pedagogy, but also because scholars have not considered the full range of medieval performance practices or "texts" beyond the traditional play text.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre - 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 Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre write by Richard Beadle. This book was released on 1994-03-17. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive, illustrated companion to the perennially popular drama of the English Middle Ages.
