Description
This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the ‘living’ traditions of performances in Spain, discussing their origins and the modes of production that are used. Several articles use modern literary theory on aspects of early drama, whilst others consider drama in the context of late medieval poetry. The volume also includes a rich collection of articles on English scriptural plays from surviving manuscripts.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1. English Scriptural Plays
1. Faith, Reason and the Prophets’ dialogue in the Coventry Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors
2. Playing Pentecost: Transformation and Texts
3. Lament and Elegy in Scriptural Drama: Englishing the Planctus Mariae
4. The End of the World in Medieval English Religious Drama
5. The Early English Passion Play
6. Medieval English Religious Plays as Early Fifteenth-Century Vernacular Theology: the Case Against
Part 2. Drama and Poetry
7. Dunbar’s The Golden Targe: A Chaucerian Masque
8. ‘He pleyeth Herodes upon a scaffold hye’?
9. Drama: Sacred and Secular
Part 3. Revivals, Survivals and Audiences – Mostly about Spain
10. La Festa D’Elx: The Festival of the Assumption of the Virgin, Elche (Alicante)
11. Elche Again: The Venida and the Semana Santa
12. The Festa d’Elx: Civic Devotion, Display and Identity
13. Corpus Christi, Valencia, 1993
14. Corpus Christi: Valencia
15 Confraternities and Civic Ceremonial: the Siena Palio
16. Twentieth Century Medieval Drama Revivals and the Universities
Part 4. Ideology and Performance
17. Spatial semantics and the medieval theatre
18. MINORITY PLAYS: Two Interludes for Edward VI
19. Rules of Exchange in Medieval Plays and Play Manuscripts
