Author: Janet C. Blohm-PultzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Costumes in Medieval Drama
Author: Janet C. Blohm-PultzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Medieval Theatre Costume
Author: Iris BrookeA Companion to the Medieval Theatre
Author: Ronald W. VincePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Vince has provided a useful and, for the most part, usable reference work. His introduction should be required reading for anyone approaching medieval theater. Choice Scholars increasingly see medieval theatre as a complex and vital performance medium related more closely to political, religious, and social life than to literature as we know it. Reflecting the current interest in performance, A Companion to the Medieval Theatre presents 250 alphabetically arranged entries offering a panoramic view of European and British theatrical productions between the years 900 and 1550. The volume features 30 essays contributed by an international group of specialists and includes many shorter entries as well as systematic cross-referencing, a chronology, a bibliography, and a full complement of indexes. Major entries focus on the theatres of the principal linguistic areas (the British Isles, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, and Eastern Europe), and on dramatic forms and genres such as liturgical drama, Passion and saint plays, morality plays, folk drama, and Humanist drama. Other articles examine costume, acting, pageantry, and music, and explore the theatrical dimension of courtly entertainment, the dance, and the tournament. Short entries supply information on over one hundred playwrights, directors, actors and antiquarians whose contributions to the theatre have been documented. This informative guide brings new depth to our appreciation of the richness and color of medieval public entertainments and the symbolism and pageantry that were a part of daily life in the Middle Ages. Designed to appeal to general reader, this volume is also an attractive choice for libraries serving students and scholars of theatre history, English and European literatures, medieval history, cultural history, drama, and performance.
The Medieval Theatre
Author: Glynne William Gladstone WickhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521312486
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This is a thoroughly revised edition of Glynne Wickham's important history of the development of dramatic art in Christian Europe. Professor Wickham surveys the foundations on which this dramatic art was built: the architecture, costumes and ceremonial of the imperial court at Byzantium, the liturgies of countires in the Eastern and Western Empires and the triumph of the Roman rite and the Romanesque style in Western art. Within this context Professor Wickham describes three major influences upon the drama: religion, recreation and commerce. The first produced the liturgical music drama rooted in praise of Christ the King, vernacular Corpus Christi drama, Saint Plays and Moralities centred on the humanity of Christ. The second gave rise to the secular theatres of social recreation based on the games and dances of village communities ad the more sophisticated sex and war games of the nobility. The section on commerce shows how the development of the drama was intimately related to questions of funding and management which led, during the sixteenth century, to the substitution of a professional for an amateur theatre, and to a growing emphasis on stage spectacle. For this third edition the author has added a substantial section on monastic reform and its effect on Biblical translation and the use of allegory; a final chapter charts the transition in different European countries from this medieval Gothic theatre to the neoclassical methods of play construction and representation which flourished for the next two hundred years. The book gorges a coherent pattern through a very large and complicated subject. It is an excellent introduction to medieval theatre for undergraduates and to the growing number of theatregoers who enjoy contemporary revivals of medieval plays. A large plate section gives a pictorial version of the story, using photographs of contemporary manuscript illuminations, mosaics, frescoes, paintings and sculptures.
Medieval Theatre in Context: An Introduction
Author: John HarrisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134961898
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
First Published in 1992. Medieval Theatre in Context is the first systematic attempt to relate the development of medieval drama - both Christian and pagan - to contemporary society and the Christian church.
Elegantly Frugal Costumes
Author: Shirley DearingPublisher: Meriwether Publishing
ISBN: 9780916260880
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Everything you need to know about making costumes for plays, pageants, musicals... at minimum expense.
Gender and Medieval Drama
Author: Katie NormingtonPublisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840275
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Evidence from Records of Early English Drama, social, literary and cultural sources are drawn together in order to investigate how performances within the late Middle Ages were both shaped by, and shaped, the public image of women."--BOOK JACKET.
Medieval Theater Costume
Author: Iris BrookeCostumes and Settings for Staging Historical Plays: Medieval
Author: Jack Cassin-ScottPublisher: Boston : Plays, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Costumes and Settings for Historical Plays: The medieval period : Early Gothic, Late Gothic and Renaissance
Author: Jack Cassin-ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Lavishly illustrated guide to wardrobe, weapons, props and settings for the period. Ideal reference for the stage/screen designer, teacher or historian.