Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre

Name: Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre
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ISBN: 9780521682541

ISBN-10: 0521682541

ISBN-13: 9780521682541

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Richard Beadle, Alan J. Fletcher

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The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition, continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Margaret E. Beare is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.Alan J. Fletcher is Statutory Lecturor in English at University College, Dublin.



List of illustrations


List of contributors


Preface


List of abbreviations


System of reference and list of editions of plays cited in the text


Chronological table



An introduction to medieval English theatre




The theatricality of medieval English plays




The cultural work of early drama




The York Corpus Christi Play




The Chester cycle




The Towneley pageants




The N-Town plays




The non-cycle plays and the East Anglian tradition




Morality plays




Saints and miracles




Modern productions of medieval English drama




A guide to criticism of medieval English theatre



Select bibliography


Author index to the bibliography


General index