Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance

Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance
ISBN-10
0230118119
ISBN-13
9780230118119
Category
History
Pages
183
Language
English
Published
2011-03-28
Publisher
Springer
Author
S. Aronson-Lehavi

Description

Street Scenes offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The performance theory perspective employed here, along with the examination of actor/character dialectics, paves the way to understanding both religious theatre and the complexity of late medieval theatricalities. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi demonstrates the existence of a late medieval discourse about the double appeal of theatre performance: an artistic medium enacting sacred history while simultaneously referring to the present lives of its creators and spectators.

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