Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co; Ashgate
Published: July 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780754607946
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Theatre, drama; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Literary Criticism; Plays / Drama; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama; English drama; History; History and criticism; Scotland; Scottish authors; Theater
Description: "Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early-modern Scotland analyses narrative accounts of public theatricality in late medieval and early-modern Scottish culture (pre-1645). Literary texts such as journal, memoir and chronicles reveal a complex spectatorship in which eye witness, textual witness and the imagination interconnect. The narrators represent a broad variety of public actions as theatrical: included are instances of assault and assassination, petition, clerical interrogation, dissent, preaching, play and display, the performance of identity and the spectatorship of tourism. Varying influences of personal experience, oral tradition, and existing written record colour the narratives. Although the book's emphasis is on the early modern period, its study of chronicle narratives takes it back from the period of their composition (predominantly 15th- and 16th-century) to earlier medieval events."--BOOK JACKET.