Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies (Variorum Collected Studies)

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This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the ‘living’ traditions of performances in Spain, discussing their origins and the modes of production that are used. Several articles use modern literary theory on aspects of early drama, whilst others consider drama in the context of late medieval poetry. The volume also includes a rich collection of articles on English scriptural plays from surviving manuscripts. Cover Series Page Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of images List of figures Introduction by Alexandra F. Johnston Part 1 English scriptural plays Chapter 1 Faith, reason and the prophets’ dialogue in the Coventry Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors Notes Chapter 2 Playing Pentecost: Transformation and texts Notes Chapter 3 Lament and elegy in scriptural drama: Englishing the planctus Mariae Notes Chapter 4 The end of the world in medieval English religious drama Notes Chapter 5 The early English Passion Play Notes Chapter 6 Medieval English religious plays as early fifteenth-century vernacular theology: The case against Notes Part 2 Drama and poetry Chapter 7 Dunbar’s The Goldyn Targe: A Chaucerian masque Notes Chapter 8 ‘He pleyeth Herodes upon a scaffold hye’? Notes Chapter 9 Drama: Sacred and secular Notes Part 3 Revivals, survivals and audiences – mostly about Spain Chapter 10 La Festa D’Elx: The festival of the Assumption of the Virgin, Elche (Alicante) Historical perspectives – Asunción Salvador-Rabaza Festa d’Agost 1985 – Pamela M. King Notes Chapter 11 Elche again: The Venida and the Semana Santa Notes Chapter 12 The Festa d’Elx: Civic devotion, display and identity Notes Chapter 13 Corpus Christi, Valencia, 1993 Note Chapter 14 Corpus Christi: Valencia The Old Testament The New Testament Notes Chapter 15 Confraternities and civic ceremonial: The Siena Palio Appendix Notes Chapter 16 Twentieth-century medieval drama revivals and universities Notes Part 4 Ideology and performance Chapter 17 Spatial semantics and the medieval theatre Notes Chapter 18 Minority plays: Two interludes for Edward VI Acknowledgement Notes Chapter 19 Rules of exchange in medieval plays and play manuscripts Materials Contrasting modes of dialogue Liturgical stylisation and empathy The manuscript’s appeal to readers A complex invitation to addressees Notes Pamela M. King’s bibliography Index