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The Fleury Playbook - Essays And Studies

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 Each essay covers a unique topic in the study of the Playbook, utilizing a diverse set of methodological tools and interdisciplinary approaches for subjects which have not heretofore received adequate scholarly attention. The topics at hand are each of significant interest to the field at large.
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Holy Week And Easter Ceremonies And Dramas From Medieval Sweden

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 Included here are the texts, translations, musical transcriptions, and facsimiles of the Swedish music-dramas for Holy Week and Easter: Depositio, Elevatio, and Visitatio Sepulchri.
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Technology, Guilds, And Early English Drama

by Clifford Davidson

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 This book is designed to open up a broader scope of study which calls attention to both social organization and material culture as integrally related to the civic drama of England in cities such as Coventry, York and Chester.
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A Selection Of Early Music - From The Repertoire Of The Society For Old Music

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 Transcriptions were all designed for performances by the Society for Old Music, and were used in concerts for the local community, the International Congress on Medieval Studies. Concerts ranged from medieval chant and monophonic song to polyphonic choral works, and each concert focused on a particular topic.
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A Tretise Of Miraclis Pleyinge

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 Clifford Davidson's newly revised and expanded edition of A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge makes available the longest and most significant text of dramatic criticism in Middle English.
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Word, Picture, And Spectacle

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 Essays addressing issues in the study of medieval art, literature, and drama. The topics covered include scatological illustration in Gothic manuscripts, connections between word and picture in religious art, perceived relationship between divine and human creativity and an exploration in the phenomenology of space and time in medieval theater.
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Technology, Guilds, And Early English Drama

by Clifford Davidson

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 This book is designed to open up a broader scope of study which calls attention to both social organization and material culture as integrally related to the civic drama of England in cities such as Coventry, York and Chester.
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Fools And Folly

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 The Fool in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period was either a person who capitalized on his natural deficiencies, which were then considered amusing, or a professional entertainer who specialized in clowning. His role is best known to us through the plays of Shakespeare. Indispensable analyses of the Fool from a number of different perspectives.
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Early Drama, Art, And Music Documents - A Paleography Handbook

by John M. Wasson

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 Wasson here provides the basic tools necessary to transcribe documents, without regard for the historical development of alphabets, letter forms, and the like. This manual will be of great interest to scholars of the arts in need of a guide for their journeys into the archives.
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The Worlde And The Chylde

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 "The Worlde and the Chylde," issued by the press of Wynkyn de Worde in 1521, is one of the very earliest plays published in England. It also has very considerable interest for its adaptation of the ages of man iconography, which is extensively treated in the introduction, notes and illustrations.
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Improvisation In The Arts Of The Middle Ages And Renaissance

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 A careful reading of the essays brings with it the awareness that to ignore improvisation is to distort the art in a major way. In light of the present volume, the very concept of "faithful historical re-creation" takes on a much broader and more complex character.
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Gesture In Medieval Drama And Art

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 Gesture and movement on stage in drama of the Late Middle Ages have previously received very little attention in scholarship. The present collection of essays is the first book to present sensible, penetrating, and wide-ranging discussions of the gestural effects that were integral to the early stage.
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Material Culture And Medieval Drama

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 Contributions to this volume recognize that early drama depended on specific developments in material culture in order to achieve its effects, which included both visual and auditory means of appealing to audiences. . Of special interest is Mary Remnant's survey of musical instruments; she is the recognized expert on medieval English instruments.
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Iconoclasm Vs. Art And Drama

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 The radical Protestantism that led to the suppression of religious drama in England also destroyed perhaps the majority of ecclesiastical art in the country. The essays in this book provide analysis of the intellectual and religious motivation as well as new historical information concerning this phase of iconoclasm.
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The Monophonic Lauda And The Lay Religious Confraternities Of Tuscany And Umbria In The Late Middle Ages

by Cyrilla Barr

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 The study of popular hymnody is remote not only from contemporary experience but also from very many contemporary scholars. The first English study of the form. Illustrated, including musical notation and black-and-white plates.
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The Idea Of Music - An Introduction To Musical Aesthetics In Antiquity And The Middle Ages

by Herbert M Schueller

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 Accessible to scholars whose specialties lie outside of technical music theory, keeping in mind especially the aesthetician but also general medieval scholars, and even the general reader.
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The Saint Play In Medieval Europe

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 This illustrated volume provides a much-needed introduction to what may have been the most popular variety of drama in the Middle Ages: the saint play. A comprehensive and collaborative survey is provided with an emphasis on interdisciplinary study rather than only literary analysis.
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Homo, Memento Finis - The Iconography Of Just Judgement In Medieval Art And Drama

by David Bevington, Huston Diehl, Pamela Sheingorn, Richard Kenneth Emmerson e Ronald Herzman

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 The medieval cycle plays from such cities as York and Chester culminated in a drama about the end of time, the Last Judgment. David Bevington and the other contributors to this book look at this final event of history as depicted in pre-modern times.
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Illustrations Of The Stage And Acting In England To 1580

by Clifford Davidson

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 This richly illustrated book surveys representations of the stage and acting from manuscript illuminations, stained glass, sculpture, woodcarving, wall paintings, and the woodcuts that appear in playbooks produced by the first English printers.
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Crossing The Boundaries - Christian Piety And The Arts In Italian Medieval And Renaissance Confraternities

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 Despite the paramount importance of confraternities (especially to males) in medieval European society, scholars have tended to neglect not only the social role they played but also the influence they had on the art, drama, music, and thinking of the society in which they not only existed but thrived.
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Studies In Fifteenth-Century Stagecraft

by J. W. Robinson

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 A close study of eight plays and the elements Robinson considers essential to performance: playwright, sponsors, location, plot, script, players, and audience.
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Holy Week And Easter Ceremonies And Dramas From Medieval Sweden

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 Included here are the texts, translations, musical transcriptions, and facsimiles of the Swedish music-dramas for Holy Week and Easter: Depositio, Elevatio, and Visitatio Sepulchri.
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Shakespeare'S Play Within Play - Medieval Imagery And Scenic Form In Hamlet, Othello, And King Lear

by Cherrell Guilfoyle

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 In his foreword to the volume, Clifford Davidson praises Guilfoyleâ€™s application of the concept of scenic form in her study of Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear, and her exposition of historical consciousness. Any student of Shakespeare will benefit from the nuanced study of his imagery and how it colors his characters and the action in his plays.
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The Corporeality Of Clothing In Medieval Literature - Cognition, Kinesis, And The Sacred

by Sarah (Maitre Assistante, University Of Geneva) Brazil

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