Street Scenes [electronic resource] : Late Medieval Acting and Performance /
Aronson-Lehavi, S.author.
Street Scenes offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The performance theory perspective employed here, along with the examination of actor/character dialectics, paves the way to understanding both religious theatre and the complexity of late medieval theatricalities. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi demonstrates the existence of a late medieval discourse about the double appeal of theatre performance: an artistic medium enacting sacred history while simultaneously referring to the present lives of its creators and spectators.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Game and performance : the Tretise of miraclis pleyinge in context -- Concepts of performance in the Tretise of miraclis pleyinge -- Street scenes : epic acting, total acting, and performance -- Conclusion.
Street Scenes offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The performance theory perspective employed here, along with the examination of actor/character dialectics, paves the way to understanding both religious theatre and the complexity of late medieval theatricalities. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi demonstrates the existence of a late medieval discourse about the double appeal of theatre performance: an artistic medium enacting sacred history while simultaneously referring to the present lives of its creators and spectators.
Tretise of miraclis pleyinge.
Europe-History-476-1492.
Theater-History.
Literature, Medieval.
Theater.
History of Medieval Europe.
Theatre History.
Medieval Literature.
Theatre and Performance Studies.