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

"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"-- Provided by publisher This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Cover 1 Series Page 3 Half Title 4 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Table of Contents 8 List of images 10 List of figures 12 Introduction by Alexandra F. Johnston 13 Part 1 English scriptural plays 22 Chapter 1 Faith, reason and the prophets’ dialogue in the Coventry Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors 24 Notes 32 Chapter 2 Playing Pentecost: Transformation and texts 34 Notes 44 Chapter 3 Lament and elegy in scriptural drama: Englishing the planctus Mariae 47 Notes 57 Chapter 4 The end of the world in medieval English religious drama 59 Notes 70 Chapter 5 The early English Passion Play 73 Notes 86 Chapter 6 Medieval English religious plays as early fifteenth-century vernacular theology: The case against 90 Notes 104 Part 2 Drama and poetry 108 Chapter 7 Dunbar’s The Goldyn Targe: A Chaucerian masque 110 Notes 120 Chapter 8 ‘He pleyeth Herodes upon a scaffold hye’? 123 Notes 135 Chapter 9 Drama: Sacred and secular 138 Notes 156 Part 3 Revivals, survivals and audiences – mostly about Spain 160 Chapter 10 La Festa D’Elx: The festival of the Assumption of the Virgin, Elche (Alicante) 162 Historical perspectives – Asunción Salvador-Rabaza 162 Festa d’Agost 1985 – Pamela M. King 168 Notes 188 Chapter 11 Elche again: The Venida and the Semana Santa 190 Notes 204 Chapter 12 The Festa d’Elx: Civic devotion, display and identity 205 Notes 218 Chapter 13 Corpus Christi, Valencia, 1993 220 Note 223 Chapter 14 Corpus Christi: Valencia 224 The Old Testament 228 The New Testament 230 Notes 248 Chapter 15 Confraternities and civic ceremonial: The Siena Palio 250 Appendix 264 Notes 268 Chapter 16 Twentieth-century medieval drama revivals and universities 271 Notes 285 Part 4 Ideology and performance 288 Chapter 17 Spatial semantics and the medieval theatre 290 Notes 299 Chapter 18 Minority plays: Two interludes for Edward VI 301 Acknowledgement 311 Notes 312 Chapter 19 Rules of exchange in medieval plays and play manuscripts 314 Materials 314 Contrasting modes of dialogue 316 Liturgical stylisation and empathy 318 The manuscript’s appeal to readers 322 A complex invitation to addressees 327 Notes 328 Pamela M. King’s bibliography 332 Index 336 Pamela,King;,medieval;,drama;,English;,drama,studies;,performance;,play;,pageant Pamela King,medieval,drama,English,drama studies,performance,play,pageant