
Between Folk and Liturgy
Rodopi (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
183 pages
978-90-420-0395-8 (ISBN)
Description
Between Folk and Liturgy, the title of this collection, should not be understood to refer to some fixed point, some stable place between the two extremes of an illiterate and a literate culture. Rather, the title flags the wide and colourful spectrum of medieval dramatic possibility. Perhaps except one, none of the ten essays published here deal with a drama existing purely at either end of this scale. They add to our impression of the teaming fecundity and hybridism of early European drama, an impression that grows apace once we start to consider dramas situated Between Folk and Liturgy. The geographical terrain that the essays traverse ranges from the British Isles in the west to Poland in the east. The suppleness of the approaches taken here is the minimum critical requirement of anyone wanting to do justice to so complex and multifold a phenomenon as is early European drama.
Reviews / Votes
"One can only rejoice that these papers are finally being made available in volume form..." in: Medieval Sermon Studies, Issue 43 (1999)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
1 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-0395-8 (9789042003958)
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Content
Alan J. FLETCHER: Introduction. Konrad SCHOELL: Sur la Notion de Theatre Populaire. Appliquee au Moyen Age. Jean-Claude AUBAILLY: Theatre Medieval et Fetes Calendaires ou l'Histoire d'une Subversion. Alan E. KNIGHT: Magical Transformation: A Folk Tale Motif in the Farce. J. Charles PAYEN: Les Elements Folkloriques dans le Theatre d'Adam de la Halle. Herman BRAET: Desenchantement et Ironie Dramatique chez Adam de la Halle. Nicholas M. DAVIS: 'His Majesty shall have tribute of me': the King Game in England. Merle FIFIELD: Structural and Thematic Recurrence in Beunans Meriasek. Peter MEREDITH: 'The Bodley Burial and Resurrection': Late English Liturgical Drama? E. Catherine DUNN: Clerics and Juglaria: A Study in Medieval Attitudes. Eleonora UDALSKA: Le Drame Liturgique et le Mystere Medieval en Pologne.