Christian Rite And Christian Drama In The Middle Ages
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Author |
: O. B. Hardison Jr. |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2019-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421430874 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421430878 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle Ages by : O. B. Hardison Jr.
Originally published in 1965. The European dramatic tradition rests on a group of religious dramas that appeared between the tenth and twelfth centuries. These dramas, of interest in themselves, are also important for the light they shed on three historical and critical problems: the relation of drama to ritual, the nature of dramatic form, and the development of representational techniques. Hardison's approach is based on the history of the Christian liturgy, on critical theories concerning the kinship of ritual and drama, and on close analysis of the chronology and content of the texts themselves. Beginning with liturgical commentaries of the ninth century, Hardison shows that writers of the period consciously interpreted the Mass and cycle of the church year in dramatic terms. By reconstructing the services themselves, he shows that they had an emphatic dramatic structure that reached its climax with the celebration of the Resurrection. Turning to the history of the Latin Resurrection play, Hardison suggests that the famous Quem quaeritis—the earliest of all medieval dramas—is best understood in relation to the baptismal rites of the Easter Vigil service. He sets forth a theory of the original form and function of the play based on the content of the earliest manuscripts as well as on vestigial ceremonial elements that survive in the later ones. Three texts from the eleventh and twelfth centuries are analyzed with emphasis on the change from ritual to representational modes. Hardison discusses why the form inherited from ritual remained unchanged, while the technique became increasingly representational. In studying the earliest vernacular dramas, Hardison examines the use of nonritual materials as sources of dramatic form, the influence of representational concepts of space and time on staging, and the development of nonceremonial techniques for composition of dialogue. The sudden appearance of these elements in vernacular drama suggests the existence of a hitherto unsuspected vernacular tradition considerably older than the earliest surviving vernacular plays.
Author |
: Osborne Bennett Hardison (Jr.) |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1421430479 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781421430478 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle Ages by : Osborne Bennett Hardison (Jr.)
Author |
: O. B. Hardison |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 1965 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:18943236 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle Ages by : O. B. Hardison
Author |
: Osborne Bennett Hardison |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1313714654 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christian rite and Christian drama in the middle ages : essays in the origin and early history of modern drama by : Osborne Bennett Hardison
Author |
: Osborne Bennett Hardison |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 1969 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:955917850 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christian rite and christian drama in the middle ages by : Osborne Bennett Hardison
Author |
: Leonard Goldstein |
Publisher |
: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0838640044 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780838640043 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Origin of Medieval Drama by : Leonard Goldstein
It has been widely accepted that the 10th-century liturgical plays developed naturally as a religious entity from the Mass. This approach is critiqued in The Origin of Medieval Drama where Leonard Goldstein places the development of the plays within the socio-economic context of the period, most notably the rapid rise of feudalism. Goldstein argues that the plays were a response by the Church to a decline in faith brought on by the burdens of feudalism on the peasantry. However, instead of revitalising faith, the plays which sought to assure the peasantry of their salvation actually represented and therefore reinforced the emerging private property relation. In looking at the origins of ancient Greek drama where scholars have concentrated more on social and cultural issues, Goldstein develops a Marxist model for the origins of medieval drama.
Author |
: Hardin Craig |
Publisher |
: Greenwood |
Total Pages |
: 476 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X000183750 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages by : Hardin Craig
Author |
: Rainer Warning |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804737916 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804737913 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ambivalences of Medieval Religious Drama by : Rainer Warning
What is medieval religious drama, and what function does it serve in negotiating between the domains of theology and popular life? This book aims to answer these questions by studying three sets of these dramas from Germany, France, England, and Spain: 10th-century Easter plays, 12th-century Adam plays, and 15th- and 16th-century Passion plays.
Author |
: Glynne William Gladstone Wickham |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 1987-07-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521312485 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521312486 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Medieval Theatre by : Glynne William Gladstone Wickham
This is a thoroughly revised edition of Glynne Wickham's important history of the development of dramatic art in Christian Europe. Professor Wickham surveys the foundations on which this dramatic art was built: the architecture, costumes and ceremonial of the imperial court at Byzantium, the liturgies of countires in the Eastern and Western Empires and the triumph of the Roman rite and the Romanesque style in Western art. Within this context Professor Wickham describes three major influences upon the drama: religion, recreation and commerce. The first produced the liturgical music drama rooted in praise of Christ the King, vernacular Corpus Christi drama, Saint Plays and Moralities centred on the humanity of Christ. The second gave rise to the secular theatres of social recreation based on the games and dances of village communities ad the more sophisticated sex and war games of the nobility. The section on commerce shows how the development of the drama was intimately related to questions of funding and management which led, during the sixteenth century, to the substitution of a professional for an amateur theatre, and to a growing emphasis on stage spectacle. For this third edition the author has added a substantial section on monastic reform and its effect on Biblical translation and the use of allegory; a final chapter charts the transition in different European countries from this medieval Gothic theatre to the neoclassical methods of play construction and representation which flourished for the next two hundred years. The book gorges a coherent pattern through a very large and complicated subject. It is an excellent introduction to medieval theatre for undergraduates and to the growing number of theatregoers who enjoy contemporary revivals of medieval plays. A large plate section gives a pictorial version of the story, using photographs of contemporary manuscript illuminations, mosaics, frescoes, paintings and sculptures.
Author |
: Robert S. Sturges |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2015-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137073440 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137073446 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Circulation of Power in Medieval Biblical Drama by : Robert S. Sturges
A literary reading informed by the recent temporal turn in Queer Theory, this book analyzes medieval Biblical drama for themes representing modes of power such as the body, politics, and law. Revitalizing the discussions on medieval drama, Sturges asserts that these dramas were often intended not to teach morality but to resist Christian authority.