Medieval theatre performance : actors, dancers, automata and their audiences

Folger bibliographic ID: 353195
Folger call number: PN2570 .M43 2017
Folger holdings ID: 501636

The nature, conditions and place of medieval theatre performance remain somewhat mysterious, with scholarship in the field tending to be devoted to its context, and to the texts themselves. The essays in this volume seek to address this omission. They consider such matters as the nature of performance in theatre/dance/puppetry/automata; the performed qualities of such events; the conventions of performed work; what took place in the act of performing; and the relationships between performers and witnesses, and what conditioned these relationships

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index The nature, conditions and place of medieval theatre performance remain somewhat mysterious, with scholarship in the field tending to be devoted to its context, and to the texts themselves. The essays in this volume seek to address this omission. They consider such matters as the nature of performance in theatre/dance/puppetry/automata; the performed qualities of such events; the conventions of performed work; what took place in the act of performing; and the relationships between performers and witnesses, and what conditioned these relationships

Extended title: Medieval theatre performance : actors, dancers, automata and their audiences / edited by Philip Butterworth and Katie Normington

Performing arts

editor: Butterworth, Philip
editor: Normington, Katie, 1964-