Plays and Their Makers up To 1576 1st Edition by Glynne Wickham ISBN 0415197861 9780415197861

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ISBN 10: 0415197861
ISBN 13: 9780415197861
Author: Glynne Wickham

 This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660.

Plays and Their Makers up To 1576 1st Table of contents:

I Drama and Festival

1 A Sense of Occasion

2 Seasonal Festivities

II Drama of the Christian Calendar

1 Festivals of the Christian Year

2 The drama of Easter and its vigil

3 Christmas, its vigil and its aftermath

4 Commemoration of saints, prophets and martyrs

5 Corpus christi and its sequels

A postscript

III Non-Recurrent Court and Civic Festivals

Book TWO Emblems of Occasion

IV Play-Makers and Device

V Device and Visual Figuration

1 Superimposition and typology

2 Combat

3 The tavern

4 Changes of name and costume

5 Revels, games and plays within plays

6 Divers Other Devices

VI Device and Verbal Figuration

1 Speaking pictures

2 Narrative: incident and story-line

3 Disputation: argument and polemic

4 Word games: ludus and Jocus

5 Song and atmospherics

VII Practical Considerations

Book THREE Play-makers and Play Texts

VIII English Comedy From Its Origins To 1576

1 Christian Attitudes And Assumptions

2 From Ordo To Ludus: ‘Earnest’, ‘Game’ And ‘Play’

3 The Genesis Of English Comedy

4 The Rationalizing Of English Comedy

IX English Tragedy From Its Origins To 1576

1 The Genesis Of English Tragedy

2 The Rationalizing Of English Tragedy

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