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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Medieval drama"”.
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Orality in Medieval Drama
… vergangener Sprachstufen bieten können. Dem dramatischen Genre der Komödie wird in der sprachhistorischen Forschung eine besondere Nähe zur gesprochenen Sprache zugesprochen. Das Korpus dieser Dissertation umfasst insgesamt 46 Stücke der spätmittelenglischen Mystery Plays, die biblische …
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The 'Hegge Plays': An Approach to the Aesthetics of Medieval Drama
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"All hayll, all hayll, both blithe and glad": Direct Address in Early English Drama, 1400-1585
… dissertation examines direct address in English drama from 1400 to 1585. All 91 non-fragmentary plays from this period were used in order to enable a comprehensive understanding of the technique. While direct address is widely acknowledged as a fundamental technique in early English drama, it is …
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The Scavenger's daughter
… Daughter is a five act play in the form of a medieval Miracle play. Though borrowing from medieval drama the play is mainly concerned with a modernist aesthetic in the vein of Artaud, Brecht, and Beckett. The play centres around a travelling merchant who builds and sells automatons which bear …
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The Resurrection Of Everyman
… in Mad Cow Theatre's production of the Morality drama Everyman. This classic tale on the condition of human dying is regarding as one of the greatest dramas of the Medieval period and is one of the first plays in the English language to be put into print. This thesis is an actor's journey into …
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The Ludus de Antichristo and the making of a monastic theatre: imperial politics and performance at the abbey of Tegernsee 1000-1200
… and poorly understood examples of medieval drama. A product of the imperial Benedictine monastery at Tegernsee, the Ludus is a twelfth-century play (c. 1159 CE) that was written to perform the monastery’s perspectives on sacred and secular authority in the renewed tensions of the …
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'Dost Thou Speak like a King?': Enacting Tyranny on the Early English Stage
<p>The Biblical drama that was popular in England from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries is a fruitful site for exploring the dissemination of political discourse. Unlike Fürstenspiegeln (mirrors for princes literature) or the tradition of royal civic triumphs, Biblical drama, whether presented …
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Staging Sodomy: Deviance and Devotion on the Early English Stage
… of the multivalent category of sodomy in late medieval works of and about biblical drama: A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, the York Joseph's Trouble About Mary and the N-Town Passion plays. Because the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge invokes charges of sodomy in its attack on biblical drama, this …