Author: Bryan Holme
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500014219
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Gives insight into the colorful and sumptuous way of life of medieval royalty and nobility, as seen in the pageantry of illuminated manuscripts and paintings of the 13th to 16th centuries
Author: John Revell Reinhard
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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A collection of stories from the works of the romancers & tale tellers of the Middle Ages. Mr. Reinhard has re-translated many of them, adapted them, & set them in a framework similar to the Canterbury Tales of the Decameron, this time a group of congenial spirits gathered in an Irish monastery. "Mr. Reinhard places the serious student in his debt, & provides the general reader with some entertaining hours."--MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.
Author: Esther Willard Bates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Discusses pageantry as a means of instruction and entertainment and contains five historical pageants.
Author: Joan FitzPatrick Dean
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350144533
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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Focusing on examples from medieval theatre, women's suffrage campaigns, and the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer a critical overview of pageant as a dramatic form. By enacting highly selective historical episodes, pageants manipulate audiences' sense of the past. Through iconic music, affecting images, and vernacular forms, pageants express and, in turn, shape religious, civic, or political allegiances. Freely appropriating elements of history plays, patriotic celebrations, opera, and film, pageants create spectacles of sensory overload. Impressive recent scholarship recognizes pageants as public history, but this is the first authoritative account of the origins, characteristics, and techniques of pageants as a theatrical idiom. Performed in sporting arenas, the open air, or purpose-built theatres, these paratheatrical events express identity through what Erika Fischer-Lichte calls “the re-theatricalization of theatre.” Pageants are intimately connected with power-they either assert and celebrate it or seek and demand it. Medieval religious pageants were so popular and powerful that they were suppressed and extinguished. The vogue for pageantry that swept through the English-speaking world in the decade before WWI was closely tied to the expansion of the franchise. Many early twentieth century pageants celebrated localities; others subversively advocated for women's suffrage. First performed in 1909, Cicely Hamilton's A Pageant of Great Women depicted historical personages from the near and distant past as well as allegorical figures such as Justice and Prejudice. Today, the Olympic Games mandate an opening ceremony that “details the country's history, culture, and overall importance for the global community.” London delivered just such a pageant in 2012. This book features a wide-ranging introduction that maps the cultural evolution of this enduring theatrical form and covers popular and readily accessible pageants from medieval England, the early twentieth century, and our own day.
Author: Carl J. Stratman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520372670
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954.
Author: Norton Downs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455610082
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Author: John Revell Reinhard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Author: John Marshall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429765010
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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Covering a period of nearly 40 years’ work by the author this collection of essays in the Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies series brings the perspective of a Drama academic and practitioner of early English plays to the understanding of how medieval plays and Robin Hood games of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were performed. It explores why, where, when, and how the plays happened, who took part, and who were the audiences. The insights are informed by a combination of research and the public presentation of surviving texts. The research included in the volume unites the early English experiences of religious and secular performance. This recognition challenges the dominant critical distinction of the past between the two and the consequent privileging of biblical and moral plays over secular entertainments. What further binds, rather than separates, the two is that the destination of funds raised by the different activities maintained the civic and parochial needs of the institutions upon which the people depended. This collection redefines the inclusive nature and common interests of the purposes that lay behind generically different undertakings. They shared an extraordinary investment of human and financial resources in the anticipation of a profit that was pious and practical. (CS1081).
Author: Edward Walford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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