Author: John WrightPublisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888442567
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Play of Antichrist
Author: John WrightPublisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888442567
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo)
Author: Kyle A. ThomasPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501513575
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo) was composed around 1160 at the imperial Bavarian abbey of Tegernsee, at a critical point in the power-struggle between the papacy and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. This new translation and commentary reveals this drama to be strikingly representative of the role that theatrical performance played in shaping contemporary politics, diplomacy, and public opinion. It also shows how drama functioned as an integral component of the educational curricula of elite monastic institutions like Tegernsee, where political administrators and diplomats were trained, and how performance served as a common, connective lingua franca among monasteries in twelfth-century Bavaria. In this new translation, Carol Symes provides the first full and faithful rendering of the play’s dynamic language, maintaining the meter, rhyme scheme, and stage directions of the Latin original and restoring the liturgical elements embedded in the text. Kyle A. Thomas, whose fully-staged production tested the theatricality of this translation, provides a new historical and dramaturgical analysis of the play’s rich interpretive and performative possibilities.
The Play of Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo. Engl.) Transl., with an Introd. by John Wright
Author: John WrightThe Play of Antichrist
Author: AntichristThe play of Antichrist, tr., with an introd
Author: The Play of Antichrist from the Chester Cycle, Edited by W. W. Greg,...
Author: Caesar Antichrist
Author: Alfred JarryPublisher: Serpent's Tail
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Translated from the French by Antony Melville, with an introduction by Alastair Brotchie The second book by the creator of UBU, the anti-hero of what is acknowledged as the first 'absurd' drama. Partly based on the apocalyptic events of the 'Book of Revelation', this is a unique work which embodies all of Jarry's themes.
The Aesthetics of Antichrist
Author: John ParkerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801463548
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe wrote a profoundly religious drama despite the theater's newfound secularism and his own reputation for anti-Christian irreverence. The Aesthetics of Antichrist explores this apparent paradox by suggesting that, long before Marlowe, Christian drama and ritual performance had reveled in staging the collapse of Christianity into its historical opponents—paganism, Judaism, worldliness, heresy. By embracing this tradition, Marlowe's work would at once demonstrate the theatricality inhering in Christian worship and, unexpectedly, resacralize the commercial theater. The Antichrist myth in particular tells of an impostor turned prophet: performing Christ's life, he reduces the godhead to a special effect yet in so doing foretells the real second coming. Medieval audiences, as well as Marlowe's, could evidently enjoy the constant confusion between true Christianity and its empty look-alikes for that very reason: mimetic degradation anticipated some final, as yet deferred revelation. Mere theater was a necessary prelude to redemption. The versions of the myth we find in Marlowe and earlier drama actually approximate, John Parker argues, a premodern theory of the redemptive effect of dramatic representation itself. Crossing the divide between medieval and Renaissance theater while drawing heavily on New Testament scholarship, Patristics, and research into the apocrypha, The Aesthetics of Antichrist proposes a wholesale rereading of pre-Shakespearean drama.
The Play of Antichrist. Translated, with an Introduction by John Wright. [With an Appendix Containing a Translation of Adso's Essay on Antichrist.].
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Author: John Henry WRIGHT (Professor of Classics and Mediaeval Studies.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Play of Antichrist, from the Chester Cycle
Author: Walter Wilson GregPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antichrist
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description