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Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles on theatre and pageantry from across the British Isles up to the opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the civic mystery cycles, and also includes contributions on European and Latin drama, together with analyses of modern survivals or equivalents, and of research productions of medieval plays.
This edition combines, perhaps unexpectedly, royalty and games. Games of all kinds, from jousting and 'Christmas games' to those usually associated with children, are shown, it is suggested, to be more than they at first appear. Apparently run-of-the-mill entertainments, when presented to the court by the Londoners, by the court to a visiting emperor, or by the retainers of royalty and nobility to the general public for commercial gain, turn out to have unexpected political resonances; while the potential underlying sadism of children's games gains a horrific immediacy when diverted to the torturing of Christ. In the process we learn a great deal more about the detail of these games, from the maskerie costumes of James VI and Anna of Denmark to the elaborate fantasy challenges of the jousters in 1400/1401, which incidentally suggest that fourteenth-century court culture, whose language was Anglo-French, is a major missing link in the history of what is usually treated as purely English literature.
Theater --- History --- Christmas Games. --- Civic Mystery Cycles. --- Drama. --- European Drama. --- Games. --- Jousting. --- Latin Drama. --- London Playhouses. --- Medieval English Theatre. --- Medieval Plays. --- Middle Ages. --- Modern Survivals. --- Role-Playing. --- English drama --- History and criticism.
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Newest research into drama and performance of the middle ages.
Theater --- English drama --- History --- History and criticism. --- Academic Latin drama. --- British Isles. --- Civic mystery cycles. --- East Anglian theatre. --- European drama. --- Folk happenings. --- Gentry festivities. --- International influences. --- Latin drama. --- London playhouses. --- Mechanical stage effects. --- Medieval. --- Middle Ages. --- Modern survivals. --- Pageant waggon construction. --- Pageantry. --- Performance. --- Research productions. --- Stagecraft. --- Theatre. --- York Corpus Christi Play.
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Essays on aspects of early drama.
Theater --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- History --- British Isles. --- Catherine of Aragon. --- Civic mystery cycles. --- Convent drama. --- Early entertainment. --- Early performance. --- Early theatre studies. --- Elizabeth Woodville. --- English theatre. --- Essays. --- European drama. --- Henry VIII. --- Historical analyses. --- Historical communities. --- Historical theatre. --- Huy. --- Latin drama. --- Local worthies. --- London playhouses. --- Low Countries. --- Medieval drama. --- Norwich. --- Pageantry. --- Play "Mankind". --- Robin Hood entertainment. --- Royal Entry. --- Stage effects. --- Theatre history. --- Theatrical institutions. --- Theatrical productions. --- Theatrical research. --- York Corpus Christi Play.
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