1st Edition
The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance
The study of early drama has undergone a quiet revolution in the last four decades, radically altering critical approaches to form, genre, and canon. Drawing on disciplines from art history to musicology and reception studies, The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance reconsiders early "drama" as a mixed mode entertainment best studied not only alongside non-dramatic texts, but also other modes of performance.
From performance before the playhouse to the afterlife of medieval drama in the contemporary avant-garde, this stunning collection of essays is divided into four sections:
- Northern European Playing before the Playhouse;
- Modes of Production and Reception;
- Reviewing the Anglophone Tradition;
- The Long Middle Ages
Offering a much needed reassessment of what is generally understood as "English medieval drama", The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance provides an invaluable resource for both students and scholars of medieval studies.
Introduction
Pamela M. King
Section 1: Northern European Playing before the Playhouse
Chapter 1.
Liturgical Enactment
Nils Holger Petersen
Chapter 2.
Arras, where burghers and jongleurs meet, play, and develop forms – afterwards seen as theatre…
Jelle Koopmans
Chapter 3.
The Early "Anglo-Norman" and French tradition
Robert Clark
Chapter 4.
Drama in Cornwall, Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Brittany
David N. Klausner
Chapter 5.
Playing in Northern Europe: Setting the Stage for the Low Countries.
Elsa Strietman
Section 2: Modes of Production and Reception
Chapter 6.
Word and Image in Early Performance
Véronique Plesch
Chapter 7.
Playing with Time’s End: Cultivating Sincere Contrition in Medieval Last Judgment Performances
Jill Stevenson
Chapter 8.
Researching Court Performance
Sarah Carpenter
Chapter 9.
Dance and Gesture as Media for Dramatic Expression
Frances Eustace
Chapter 10.
Robin Hood Plays and Combat Games
John Marshall
Section 3: Reviewing the Anglophone Tradition
Chapter 11
English Biblical Drama
Alexandra F. Johnston
Chapter 12
Morality Plays and the Aftermath of Arundel’s Constitutions
Charlotte Steenbrugge
Chapter 13
Rehabilitating Academic Drama
Stephanie Allen, Elisabeth Dutton & James McBain
Chapter 14
The Interlude
Andrew Hiscock
Chapter 15
Touring Players and their Plays before 1570
Peter Greenfield
Section 4: The Long Middle Ages
Chapter 16
Manuscripts, antiquarians, editors and critics: the historiography of reception.
Pamela M. King
Chapter 17
Re-enacting the past: medieval English biblical plays and some modern analogues
Margaret Rogerson
Chapter 18.
The Processional Theatre of Palm Sunday
Max Harris
Chapter 19.
The Medieval and the Avant Garde: an Interview with avant garde multi-media medievalist-practitioner/deviser Gro Siri Ognøy Johansen (Norway)
Nils Holger Petersen and Pamela M. King.
Biography
Pamela M. King is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is an interdisciplinary medievalist publishing on late medieval English literature, theatre, tomb sculpture, and manuscripts, as well as civic festivals past and present.
