Les mystères
Subtitle: studies in genre, text and theatricality
By: edited by Peter Happé and Wim Hüsken
Series: Ludus : medieval and early Renaissance theatre and drama -- 12; Ludus -- 12.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9789042034891; 9789401207669
Subjects: History and criticism; Mysteries and miracle-plays, French
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-321).
Table of contents: title: Mystère, farce, moralité : a reflection upon the poetics of drama in the Middle Ages, based on Ms. BnF fr. 904, Passion de Semur (fifteenth century), and some other Burgundian manuscripts; title: The theatricality of pre- and post-performance French mystery play texts; title: Michel adapts Gréban : some aspects of the passion sequence; title: Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 617 : Mystères as convent drama; title: "Haro! Haro! Sus, dyablerie" : the theatricality of devils in temptation sequences; title: Le Mystère de Saint Sébastien's villain : "No cuckoo is a sparrowhawk"; title: La Pucelle and the Godons in the Mistère du Siège d'Orléans : civic pageant and popular tradition; title: "Laisser l'Istoire ...et moralisier ung Petit" : aspects of allegory in the Mystères; title: Turning Chanson de Geste into a mystery, or non-religious and chivalric mystery plays; title: Sermons in the Passions of Mercadé, Gréban and Jehan Michel; title: A typology of Catalan play manuscripts from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century.