From Page to Performance: Essays in Early English Drama

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This book is a collection of 22 essays by scholars in the field of Medieval Drama, mostly relating to performance both past and present. Alford wrote one essay in the book.;Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Mass as Performance Text; 2. From Mappa Mundi to Theatrum Mundi: The World as Stage in Early English Drama; 3. Asleep Onstage; 4. Acting Mary: The Emotional Realism of the Mature Virgin in the N-Town Plays; 5. The Performance of Some Wakefield Master Plays on the University of Illinois Campus; 6. The Problem with Mrs. Noah: The Search for Performance Credibility in the Chester Noah's Flood Play; 7. The Theaters of Everyman; 8. "My Name is Worship": Masquerading Vice in Medwall's Nature; 9. Plays, Players, and Playwrights in Renaissance Oxford. Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Mass as Performance Text 2. From Mappa Mundi to Theatrum Mundi: The World as Stage in Early English Drama 3. Asleep Onstage 4. Acting Mary: The Emotional Realism of the Mature Virgin in the N-Town Plays 5. The Performance of Some Wakefield Master Plays on the University of Illinois Campus 6. The Problem with Mrs. Noah: The Search for Performance Credibility in the Chester Noah's Flood Play 7. The Theaters of Everyman 8. "My Name is Worship": Masquerading Vice in Medwall's Nature 9. Plays, Players, and Playwrights in Renaissance Oxford. 10. English Chronicle Contexts for Shakespeare's Death of Richard II11. Family by Death: Stage Images in Titus Andronicus and The Winter's Tale 12. Bearing "A Wary Eye": Ludic Vengeance and Doubtful Suicide in Hamlet Contributors Index.