| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages) : illustrations, maps, music |
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Conjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past |
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Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past.
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| Contents |
Introduction : locating a medieval theater -- A history play : the Jeu de saint Nicolas and the world of Arras -- Prodigals and jongleurs : initiative and agency in a theater town -- Access to the media : publicity, participation, and the public sphere -- Relics and rites : "The play of the bower" and other plays -- Lives in the theater -- Conclusion : on looking into a medieval theater |
| Summary |
"Medieval Arras was a thriving town on the frontier between the kingdom of France and the county of Flanders, and home to Europe's earliest surviving vernacular plays. In A Common Stage, Carol Symes undertakes a cultural archaeology of these artifacts, analyzing the process by which a handful of entertainments were conceived, transmitted, received, and recorded during the thirteenth century. She then places the resulting scripts alongside other documented performances: the crying of news, publication of law, preaching of sermons, and arrangement of civic spectacles. A Common Stage thus challenges the prevalent understanding of theater history while offering the first comprehensive history of a community often credited with the invention of French as a powerful literary language."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-316) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
French drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
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Theater and society -- France -- Arras -- History -- To 1500
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Theater -- France -- Arras -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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French drama.
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Theater and society.
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Theater -- Medieval.
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Umgangssprache
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Stadt
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Volksschauspiel
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Drama
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France -- Arras.
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Frankreich
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Arras
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Pikardisch.
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Französisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781501726613 |
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1501726617 |
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