Middle English Drama Beyond the Cycle Plays
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880308 |
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| Authors | Jessica Brantley (Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 331-342 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lic3.12056 |
| OpenAlex | W1489566214 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
The study of Middle English drama has long been dominated by discussion of the cycle plays, the sweeping multi‐part pageants of biblical history that were performed yearly in cities such as York. But those cycle plays form only part of a complicated and rich culture of performance in late‐medieval England. This essay seeks to provide a sense of the variety of that culture, attesting to the breadth of medieval English drama in play texts such as Mankind, the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, and the Digby Mary Magdalene , and also in other kinds of performance record, such as dramatic fragments and prose meditations. For the broadening of medieval theater history beyond the cycle plays includes not only other significant genres of dramatic activity, but also performative practices and literary texts that lie relatively far from the stage. A theater history beyond the cycle plays also necessarily becomes a theater history beyond the theater, as scholars write a new history of medieval performance
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Drama · Literature · Middle Ages · Middle English · Performative utterance · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philippine History and Culture
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre
The Theatre of Medieval Europe
Performative Reading
Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France
Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship
Mankind in a Year without Kings
Performing Feminine Sanctity in Late Medieval England
Reversing Discipline
The Appearance of Early Vernacular Plays
| Highly cited | No |
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