Investigations into the "realities" of staging dramatic performances, of a variety of kinds, in the middle ages.

Investigations into the "realities" of staging dramatic performances, of a variety of kinds, in the middle ages.

We know little about the nature of medieval performance and have generally been content to think of it in relation to more modern productions, not least because of the sparsity of existing evidence. Consequently, whilst much research has been undertaken into itscontexts, there has been relatively little scholarly investigation into the conditions of perfomance itself. This book seeks to address this omission. It looks at such questions as the nature of performance in theatre/dance/puppetry/automata; the performed qualities of such events; the conventions of performed work; what took place in the act of performing; and the relationships between performers and witnesses, andwhat conditioned them.

PHILIP BUTTERWORTH Is Visiting Research Fellow in the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds, where he was formerly Reader in Medieval Theatre and Dean for Research; KATIE NORMINGTON is Senior Vice Principal (Academic) at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is also Professor of Drama.

Contributors: Kathryn Emily Dickason, Leanne Groeneveld, Max Harris, David Klausner, Femke Kramer, Jennifer Nevile, Nerida Newbigin, Tom Pettitt, Bart Ramakers, Claire Sponsler.

Introduction
From Archive to Repertoire: TheDisguising at Hertford and Performance Practices - Claire Sponsler
Walk, Talk, Sit, Quit? On What Happens in Netherlandish Rhetoricians' Plays - Bart Ramakers
Performing Intrusions: Interaction and Interaxionality in Medieval English Theatre - Tom Pettitt
Player Transformation: The Role of Clothing and Disguise - Katie Normington
Pavilioned in Splendour: Performing Heaven in Fifteenth-Century Florence - Nerida Newbigin
Living Pictures: Drama without Text, Drama without Action - David N. Klausner
Performer-Audience Relationships in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Danced Spectacles - Jennifer Nevile
Decadance in the Late Middle Ages: The Case ofChoreomania - KathrynEmily Dickason
Writing, Telling and Showing Horsemanship in Rhetoricians' Farce - Femke Kramer
Inanimate Performers: The Animation and Interpretive Versatility of the Palmesel - Max Harris
'lyke unto a lyvelye thyng': The Boxley Rood of Grace and Medieval Performance - Leanne Groeneveld
The Mechanycalle 'Ymage off Seynt Iorge' at St Botolph's, Billingsgate, 1474 - Philip Butterworth
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