Farce and Farcical Elements
Published on 1. January 2002
Book
Hardback
223 pages
978-90-420-1559-3 (ISBN)
Description
Farcical elements were incorporated into non-comic drama ever since the theatre had been rediscovered in the Middle Ages. Already at a very early stage, comic scenes proved to be popular additions to liturgical music drama and, later, to religious plays in the vernacular. Some scholars believe that the genre of farce developed out of these farcical elements. The suggestion was made that farces, similar to the stuffing of meat or poultry, had been added to plays to increase audience involvement. Other researchers see quite different origins for the farce. The present volume does not aspire to solve the question of the relationship between the two types of "comedy" on the medieval stages but its editors hope that it will nevertheless contribute to this discussion. In addition, it will enable its readers to form an impression of the huge variety of the comic in the vast area of medieval and early Renaissance theatre and drama.
Reviews / Votes
"[the editors] did a fine job." - in: BHR LXV (2003:1), p. 183"...a worthwhile contribution to the study of early drama." - in: Theatre Research International, Vol. 28/1 (2003)
"...impressive both in scope and precision." - in: Sixteenth Century Journal, XXXV/1 (2004), pp. 280-2
"The high quality of contributors and the range of topics make this an excellent sourcebook for scholars of drama." - in: Mediaevistik 16 (2003), pp. 283-5
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-1559-3 (9789042015593)
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Wim Huesken | Konrad Schoell | Leif Sondergaard
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Content
Wim Huesken & Konrad Schoell: Introduction
Peter Happe: Farcical Elements in the English Mystery Cycles
Michael O'Connell: Mockery, Farce, and Risus Paschalis in the York Christ before Herod
Charlotte Spivack: Mirth and Mockery: The Devil's Way
Jean Paul Debax: Farce and Farcical Elements in the English Interludes, or: How the Vice beat the Farce.
Elizabeth Baldwin: Chaucer, Medieval Drama, and a Newly Discovered Seventeenth-Century Play: The Survival of Medieval Stereotypes?
Konrad Schoell: L'Individu et le Groupe Social dans la Farce
Jelle Koopmans: Les Elements Farcesques dans la Sottie Francaise
Maria Jose Palla: << Le Silence est le bouclier de la sagesse >>: Le Dialogo da Ressurreicao de Gil Vicente
Leif Sondergaard: Combat Between the Genders: Farcical Elements in the German Fastnachtspiel
Marie Lesaffre: Das heisst eysen, un Jeu de Carnaval de Hans Sachs
Danielle Buschinger: La Reception du Decameron dans les Jeux de Carnaval de Hans Sachs
Joe G. Delap: From Revelry to Reality: Drinking, Poverty and Salvation in Hans Rudolf Manuel's Weinspiel
Peter Happe: Farcical Elements in the English Mystery Cycles
Michael O'Connell: Mockery, Farce, and Risus Paschalis in the York Christ before Herod
Charlotte Spivack: Mirth and Mockery: The Devil's Way
Jean Paul Debax: Farce and Farcical Elements in the English Interludes, or: How the Vice beat the Farce.
Elizabeth Baldwin: Chaucer, Medieval Drama, and a Newly Discovered Seventeenth-Century Play: The Survival of Medieval Stereotypes?
Konrad Schoell: L'Individu et le Groupe Social dans la Farce
Jelle Koopmans: Les Elements Farcesques dans la Sottie Francaise
Maria Jose Palla: << Le Silence est le bouclier de la sagesse >>: Le Dialogo da Ressurreicao de Gil Vicente
Leif Sondergaard: Combat Between the Genders: Farcical Elements in the German Fastnachtspiel
Marie Lesaffre: Das heisst eysen, un Jeu de Carnaval de Hans Sachs
Danielle Buschinger: La Reception du Decameron dans les Jeux de Carnaval de Hans Sachs
Joe G. Delap: From Revelry to Reality: Drinking, Poverty and Salvation in Hans Rudolf Manuel's Weinspiel