The Cambridge companion to medieval English theatre /

The Cambridge companion to medieval English theatre /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 372 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge companions to literature Cambridge companions to literature.
Subject:	Theater -- England -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500. Bible plays, English -- History and criticism. Christian drama, English (Middle) -- History and criticism. English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism. Theater -- Production and direction -- England -- History. Mysteries and miracle-plays, English -- History and criticism.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9025849

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Other authors / contributors:	Beadle, Richard, editor.
ISBN:	9780511998997 (ebook) 9780521366700 (hardback) 9780521459167 (paperback)
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
Summary:	The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike. This book provides an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary, and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. After a general introduction there are chapters devoted to each of the major regional cycles, the less-well known East Anglian and Cornish traditions, the morality drama and saints' plays. Two illustrated chapters are devoted to the performance of medieval plays, in their own time and in recent modern revivals. A full reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an extensive classified bibliography and a chronological table.
Other form:	Print version: 9780521366700

Table of Contents:

An introduction to medieval English theatre / William Tydeman
The theatricality of medieval English plays / Meg Twycross
The York cycle / Richard Beadle
The Chester cycle / David Mills
The Towneley cycle / Peter Meredith
The N-Town plays / Alan J. Fletcher
The non-cycle plays and East Anglican tradition / John C. Coldewey
The Cornish medieval drama / Brian O. Murdoch
Morality plays / Pamela M. King
Saints' plays / Darryll Grantley
Modern productions of medieval English plays / John Marshall
A guide to criticism of medieval English theatre / Peter Happé.