The Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts, Records, and Staging: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies (Variorum Collected Studies) - Softcover

Meredith, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367593769 ISBN 13: 9780367593766

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Collected Studies CS1069

The essays selected for this volume reflect Peter Meredith’s major contribution to the revival and revision of academic and public interest in medieval English drama and theatre. A number of coinciding factors in the last quarter of the twentieth century brought together a group of scholars, represented here in the Shifting Paradigms series, determined to place the study of medieval drama in a broader context than that of solely reading texts. The publication of Records of Early English Drama, the University of Leeds facsimiles of medieval drama manuscripts, the establishment of the journal and annual meetings of Medieval English Theatre, brought a wider perspective to the discipline. And, by no means least, the bringing to bear of all these ground-breaking developments to the mammoth tasks of recreating in the public domain the original-staging of medieval plays. Peter Meredith had a hand in the formation and lasting influence of all these crucial innovations. The variety and depth of his comprehensive approach to the study of medieval drama and theatre is clearly evinced in each of the essays chosen for this volume.

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About the Author

Peter Meredith is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Drama at the University of Leeds, UK.

John Marshall is Senior Research Fellow in Theatre at the University of Bristol, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367593769
• ISBN 13: 9780367593766
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 380