Drama, Play, and Game

Name: Drama, Play, and Game
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226110301
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English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period

Autor: Lawrence M. Clopper

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Editura: The University of Chicago Press

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How was it possible for drama, especially biblical representations, to appear in the Christian West...

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Autor

Lawrence M. Clopper

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2001

Pagini

384

EAN

9780226110301

ISBN

0226110303

Enbook ID

04543485

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

618

Dimensiuni

164 x 232 x 26

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How was it possible for drama, especially biblical representations, to appear in the Christian West given the church's condemnation of the theatrum of the ancient world?In a book with radical implications for the study of medieval literature, Lawrence Clopper resolves this perplexing question. "Drama, Play, and Game" demonstrates that the theatrum repudiated by medieval clerics was not "theater" as we understand the term today. Clopper contends that critics have misrepresented Western stage history because they have assumed that theatrum designates a place where drama is performed. While theatrum was thought of as a site of spectacle during the Middle Ages, the term was more closely connected with immodest behavior and lurid forms of festive culture. Clerics were not opposed to liturgical representations in churches, but they strove ardently to suppress May games, ludi, festivals, and liturgical parodies. Medieval drama, then, stemmed from a more vernacular tradition than previously acknowledged-one developed by England's laity outside the boundaries of clerical rule.

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