Performing Environments [electronic resource] : Site-Specificity in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama /
Bennett, S.editor.
Polito, M.editor.
This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Thinking Site: An Introduction; Part I: Building Frameworks; 1 ''The whole past, the whole time'': Untimely Matter and the Playing Spaces of York; 2 John Heywood, Henry and Hampton Court Palace; 3 Playing The Changeling Architecturally; Part II: Travel and Topography; 4 Performing Folk at Kenilworth; 5 Knights and Daze: The Place of Romance in the Queen''s Men''s Repertory; 6 Geographies of Performance in the Early Modern Midlands; Part III: Psychic Spaces
7 Mapping Guild Conflict in the York Passion Plays8 Body, Site and Memory in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament; 9 A Taste of High Life at Elvetham: Elizabethan Progresses and the Rural Consumption of Royal Neverwheres; Part IV: Crossing Boundaries; 10 ''With the grace of God at th''entryng of the Brigge'': Crown versus Town and the Giant of London Bridge in Lydgate''s Triumphal Entry of Henry VI; 11 Cymbeline and the Politics/Poetics of Mobility; 12 Locating The Valiant Scot; Selected Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Literature.
Architecture.
British literature.
Theater-History.
Performing Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Literature, general.
Architecture, general.
British and Irish Literature.
Theatre History.