From Page to Performance
Essays in Early English Drama
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2005
278 pages
978-0-87013-884-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a collection of 22 essays by scholars in the field of Medieval Drama, mostly relating to performance both past and present. Alford wrote one essay in the book.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Mass as Performance Text
- 2. From Mappa Mundi to Theatrum Mundi: The World as Stage in Early English Drama
- 3. Asleep Onstage
- 4. Acting Mary: The Emotional Realism of the Mature Virgin in the N-Town Plays
- 5. The Performance of Some Wakefield Master Plays on the University of Illinois Campus
- 6. The Problem with Mrs. Noah: The Search for Performance Credibility in the Chester Noah's Flood Play
- 7. The Theaters of Everyman
- 8. "My Name is Worship": Masquerading Vice in Medwall's Nature
- 9. Plays, Players, and Playwrights in Renaissance Oxford
- 10. English Chronicle Contexts for Shakespeare's Death of Richard II
- 11. Family by Death: Stage Images in Titus Andronicus and The Winter's Tale
- 12. Bearing "A Wary Eye": Ludic Vengeance and Doubtful Suicide in Hamlet
- Contributors
- Index
