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OverviewThe ludic element of drama in the Middle Ages - or drama with early subject matter - is here to the fore. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles on theatre and pageantry from across the British Isles up to the opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the civic mystery cycles, and also includes contributions on European and Latin drama, together with analyses of modern survivals or equivalents, and of research productions of medieval plays. This edition combines, perhaps unexpectedly, royalty and games. Games of all kinds, from jousting and ""Christmas games"" to those usually associated with children, are shown, it is suggested, to be more than they at first appear. Apparently run-of-the-mill entertainments, when presented to the court by the Londoners, by the court to a visiting emperor , or by the retainers of royalty and nobility to the general public for commercial gain, turn out to have unexpected political resonances; while the potential underlying sadism of children's games gains a horrific immediacy when diverted to the torturing of Christ. Even today, the musical SIX says a great deal more about royalty and role-playing than initially might appear, especially when set against eye-witness accounts of the first meeting of Anna of Cleves with Henry VIII, and what modern novelists have made of it . In the process we learn a great deal more about the detail of these games, from the maskerie costumes of James VI and Anna of Denmark to the elaborate fantasy challenges of the jousters in 1400/1401, which incidentally suggest that fourteenth-century court culture, whose language was Anglo-French, is a major missing link in the history of what is usually treated as purely English literature. Contributors: Philip Bennett, Philip Butterworth, Sarah Carpenter, Elisabeth Dutton, James Forse, Gordon Kipling, Michael Pearce, Meg Twycross. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Meg Twycross , Sarah Carpenter , Elisabeth Dutton , Professor Gordon Kipling (Person)Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: D.S. Brewer Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781843846307ISBN 10: 1843846306 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 06 May 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsThe Prince of Peace and the Mummers: Richard II and the Londoners' Visit of 1376/1377 - Meg Twycross Chivalric Entertainment at the Court of Henry IV: The Jousting Letters of 1401 - Sarah Carpenter Appendix (Meg Twycross and Philip Bennett): Transcription and Translation of BL MS Cotton Nero D II fols 260v-262r 'Maskerye claythis' for James VI and Anna of Denmark - Michael Pearce Peers and Performers in the Reign of Henry VI - James H. Forse 'That Gam Me Thoght Was Good!': Structuring Games into Medieval English Plays - Philip Butterworth Feminism, Theatre, and Historical Fiction: Anna of Cleves in 2021 - Elisabeth DuttonReviewsAuthor InformationMEG TWYCROSS is professor Emeritus of English Medieval Studies at University of Lancaster SARAH CARPENTER is Honorary Fellow in English Literature, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh. ELISABETH DUTTON is Professor of Medieval English at Fribourg, Switzerland. GORDON L. KIPLING is Emeritus Professor of English Literature, UCLA, Los Angeles. MEG TWYCROSS is professor Emeritus of English Medieval Studies at University of Lancaster SARAH CARPENTER is Honorary Fellow in English Literature, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh. ELISABETH DUTTON is Professor of Medieval English at Fribourg, Switzerland. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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