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Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain
Inbunden, 2007
2888 kr
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Based in records and iconography, this book surveys medieval festival playing in Britain more comprehensively than any other work to date. The study presents an inclusive view of the drama in the British Isles, from Kilkenny to Great Yarmouth, from Scotland to Cornwall. It offers detailed readings …
Norwegians in Michigan
Häftad, 2009
354 kr
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In Norwegians in Michigan, Clifford Davidson shows how Norwegians took advantage of opportunities when they began settling in Michigan in the nineteenth century. Norwegians sailed Lake Michigan, joined the lumber trade, farmed the northwest part of the state, and mined copper and iron in the Upper …
Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580
Inbunden, 1991
342 kr
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This richly illustrated book surveys representations of the stage and acting from manuscript illuminations, stained glass, sculpture, woodcarving, wall paintings, and the woodcuts that appear in playbooks produced by the first English printers.
Word, Picture, and Spectacle
Häftad, 1984
302 kr
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Each of these diverse essays confronts important issues in the study of medieval art, literature, and drama. The topics covered include the symbolism of scatological illustration in Gothic manuscripts (Karl Wentersdorf), connections between word and picture in religious art (Roger Ellis), and the …
Early Art of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and Lesser Sites in Warwickshire
A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama
Av Clifford Davidson, Jennifer Alexander
Inbunden, 1985
342 kr
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The study of the early art of England can be frustrating for scholars, as the destruction by iconoclasm and neglect was very thorough in certain regions. This volume seeks to aid those studying the early art, including relics and musical iconography, of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and …
Fleury Playbook
Essays and Studies
Av Thomas P. Campbell, Clifford Davidson
Häftad, 1985
412 kr
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Growing out of a symposium on the Fleury Playbook at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, this book includes essays from the symposium, as well as additional papers written by scholars whose specialties were not represented at the conference. Each essay covers a unique topic in the study …
Saint Play in Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 1986
632 kr
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This illustrated volume intelligently provides a much-needed introduction to what may have been the most popular variety of drama in the Middle Ages: the saint play. A comprehensive and collaborative survey is provided with an emphasis on interdisciplinary study rather than only literary analysis. …
Iconoclasm vs. Art and Drama
Av Clifford Davidson, Ann Eljenholm Nichols
Inbunden, 1989
332 kr
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The radical Protestantism that led to the suppression of religious drama in England also by the early years of Queen Elizabeth I destroyed perhaps the majority of ecclesiastical art in the country. The essays in this book provide analysis of the intellectual and religious motivation as well as new …
Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain
Häftad, 2016
1063 kr
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Based in records and iconography, this book surveys medieval festival playing in Britain more comprehensively than any other work to date. The study presents an inclusive view of the drama in the British Isles, from Kilkenny to Great Yarmouth, from Scotland to Cornwall. It offers detailed readings …
Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain
E-bok, 2016
1255 kr
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Based in records and iconography, this book surveys medieval festival playing in Britain more comprehensively than any other work to date. The study presents an inclusive view of the drama in the British Isles, from Kilkenny to Great Yarmouth, from Scotland to Cornwall. It offers detailed readings …
Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain
E-bok, 2016
1227 kr
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Based in records and iconography, this book surveys medieval festival playing in Britain more comprehensively than any other work to date. The study presents an inclusive view of the drama in the British Isles, from Kilkenny to Great Yarmouth, from Scotland to Cornwall. It offers detailed readings …
Material Culture and Medieval Drama
Inbunden, 1999
466 kr
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The contributions by distinguished American and British scholars to this volume recognize that early drama depended on specific developments in material culture in order to achieve its effects, which included both visual and auditory means of appealing to audiences. The discussions range from the …
Gesture in Medieval Drama and Art
Inbunden, 2001
335 kr
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Gesture and movement on stage in early drama have previously received very little attention in scholarship. The present collection of essays is the first book to present sensible, penetrating, and wide-ranging discussions of the gestural effects that were integral to the early stage. In addition to …
Worlde and the Chylde
Av Peter Happe, Clifford Davidson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
456 kr
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The Worlde and the Chylde, issued by the press of Wynkyn de Worde in 1521, is one of the very earliest plays published in England. It also has very considerable interest for its adaptation of the Ages of Man iconography, which is extensively treated in the introduction, notes, and illustrations.
Coventry Corpus Christi Plays
Av Clifford Davidson, Pamela M King
Inbunden, 2000
374 kr
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One of the greatest medieval drama cycles in England was mounted annually at Coventry at Corpus Christi until suppressed in 1579, and is of particular importance because it was almost certainly seen by William Shakespeare when he was a boy in nearby Stratford-upon-Avon. The two extant pageants from …
Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc
Av Ton J Broos, Clifford Davidson m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
219 kr
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Faced with death's certainty-and the uncertainty of the time of its coming, particularly in a historical period of widespread plague and other afflictions-as well as the inevitability of the hereafter, what is one to do? Everyman speaks to this dilemma. . . . The protagonist is one who, because he …
York Corpus Christi Plays
Häftad, 2011
369 kr
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The feast of Corpus Christi, celebrated annually on Thursday after Trinity Sunday, was devoted to the Eucharist, and the normal practice was to have solemn processions through the city with the Host, the consecrated wafer that was believed to have been transformed into the true body and blood of …
Fools and Folly
Inbunden, 1996
382 kr
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The Fool in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period was either a person who capitalized on his natural deficiencies, which were then considered amusing, or a professional entertainer the artificial Fool who specialized in clowning. His distinctive clothing and bauble are known to us through …
Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama
Inbunden, 1997
408 kr
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Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama is designed to open up a broader scope of study that calls attention to both social organization and material culture as integrally related to the civic drama of England in cities such as Coventry, York, and Chester. It addresses many questions that have …
Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama
Häftad, 1997
327 kr
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Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama is designed to open up a broader scope of study that calls attention to both social organization and material culture as integrally related to the civic drama of England in cities such as Coventry, York, and Chester. It addresses many questions that have …
Studies in Late Medieval Wall Paintings, Manuscript Illuminations, and Texts
Inbunden, 2016
610 kr
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This volume is an interdisciplinary consideration of late medieval art and texts, falling into two parts: first, the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, and second, Carthusian studies treating fragmentary wall paintings in …
Studies in Late Medieval Wall Paintings, Manuscript Illuminations, and Texts
E-bok, 2016
797 kr
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This volume is an interdisciplinary consideration of late medieval art and texts, falling into two parts: first, the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, and second, Carthusian studies treating fragmentary wall paintings in …
Studies in Late Medieval Wall Paintings, Manuscript Illuminations, and Texts
Häftad, 2018
607 kr
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This volume is an interdisciplinary consideration of late medieval art and texts, falling into two parts: first, the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, and second, Carthusian studies treating fragmentary wall paintings in …
John Lydgate, The Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse Macabre
Inbunden, 2021
2265 kr
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This edition of John Lydgate’s Dance of Death offers a detailed comparison of the different text versions, a new scholarly edition and translation of Guy Marchant’s 1485 French Danse Macabre text, and an art-historical analysis of its woodcut illustrations.It addresses the cultural context and …
History, Religion, and Violence
Cultural Contexts for Medieval and Renaissance English Drama
Inbunden, 2002
1601 kr
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Professor Davidson is concerned here to chart public theatrical display as a barometer of developments in the English Middle Ages and Renaissance. This book brings together twelve previously published articles on historical and religious aspects of the early English theatre as well as an original …
Iconographic and Comparative Studies in Medieval Drama
Av Clifford Davidson, John H Stroupe
Häftad, 1991
300 kr
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This compelling volume contains ten articles drawn from papers presented at the Sixth Triennial Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of the Medieval Theatre. Each essay examines the fascinating connection between medieval art and medieval drama, which, when presented together in a …
Word, Picture, and Spectacle
Inbunden, 1984
590 kr
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Each of these diverse essays confronts important issues in the study of medieval art, literature, and drama. The topics covered include the symbolism of scatological illustration in Gothic manuscripts (Karl Wentersdorf), connections between word and picture in religious art (Roger Ellis), and the …
Early Art of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and Lesser Sites in Warwickshire
A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama
Av Clifford Davidson, Jennifer Alexander
Häftad, 1985
263 kr
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The study of the early art of England can be frustrating for scholars, as the destruction by iconoclasm and neglect was very thorough in certain regions. This volume seeks to aid those studying the early art, including relics and musical iconography, of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and …
Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge
Häftad, 2012
300 kr
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Clifford Davidson's newly revised and expanded edition of A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge makes available the most significant text of dramatic criticism in Middle English. A polemic against the playing of "miraclis," the Tretise is frequently linked to the Wycliffite or Lollard movements of the …
Emblem, Iconography, and Drama
Av Clifford Davidson, Luis R. Gamez m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
421 kr
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Eight iconographic studies by American, Australian, and British scholars that focus on Shakespeare and his contemporaries and on the interconnectedness of their art with the visual language of their time. Reprinted from Comparative Drama.
