The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo)
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The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo)

A Dramaturgical Analysis, Historical Commentary, and Latin Edition with a New English Verse Translation

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The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo)

A Dramaturgical Analysis, Historical Commentary, and Latin Edition with a New English Verse Translation

About this book

The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo) was composed around 1160 at the imperial Bavarian abbey of Tegernsee, at a critical point in the power-struggle between the papacy and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. This new translation and commentary reveals this drama to be strikingly representative of the role that theatrical performance played in shaping contemporary politics, diplomacy, and public opinion. It also shows how drama functioned as an integral component of the educational curricula of elite monastic institutions like Tegernsee, where political administrators and diplomats were trained, and how performance served as a common, connective lingua franca among monasteries in twelfth-century Bavaria.

In this new translation, Carol Symes provides the first full and faithful rendering of the play's dynamic language, maintaining the meter, rhyme scheme, and stage directions of the Latin original and restoring the liturgical elements embedded in the text. Kyle A. Thomas, whose fully-staged production tested the theatricality of this translation, provides a new historical and dramaturgical analysis of the play's rich interpretive and performative possibilities.

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Information

Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781501513572
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Drama
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Part I: The Play: Historical, Literary, and Performance Contexts (Kyle A. Thomas)
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1 A Performance Dramaturgy
  9. 2 History, Eschatology, and Education: Contextual Frameworks for The Play about the Antichrist
  10. 3 Liturgies, Æsthetics, and Symbolic Meaning-Making
  11. Part II: A New Translation and Edition (Kyle A. Thomas, Carol Symes)
  12. Introduction
  13. Dramatis Personæ
  14. Ludus de Antichristo
  15. The Play about the Antichrist
  16. Bibliography