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Staging Conventions in Medieval English Theatre
About this book
How was medieval English theatre performed? Many of the modern theatrical concepts and terms used today to discuss the nature of medieval English theatre were never used in medieval times. Concepts and terms such as character, characterisation, truth and belief, costume, acting style, amateur, professional, stage directions, effects and special effects are all examples of post-medieval terms that have been applied to the English theatre. Little has been written about staging conventions in the performance of medieval English theatre and the identity and value of these conventions has often been overlooked. In this book, Philip Butterworth analyses dormant evidence of theatrical processes such as casting, doubling of parts, rehearsing, memorising, cueing, entering, exiting, playing, expounding, prompting, delivering effects, timing, hearing, seeing and responding. All these concerns point to a very different kind of theatre to the naturalistic theatre produced today.
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Topic
LittératureSubtopic
Critique littéraire anglaiseTable of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Frontispiece
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Outdoors and indoors
- 2 Casting and doubling
- 3 Rehearsing, memorising and cueing
- 4 Coming and going
- 5 Playing, feigning and counterfeiting
- 6 Dressing and disguising
- 7 Expounding and monitoring
- 8 Effecting effects
- 9 Timing and waiting
- 10 Hearing, seeing and responding
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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