Shakespeare's Medieval Craft : : Remnants of the Mysteries on the London Stage / / Kurt A. Schreyer.
In Shakespeare’s Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer p...
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Schreyer, Kurt A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Shakespeare's Medieval Craft : Remnants of the Mysteries on the London Stage / Kurt A. Schreyer. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (280 p.) : 9 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Toward a Renaissance Culture of Medieval Artifacts -- 2. The Chester Banns: A Sixteenth-Century Perspective on the Mysteries -- 3. Balaam to Bottom: A Sixteenth-Century Translation -- 4. “Then Is Doomsday Near”: Hamlet, the Last Judgment, and the Place of Purgatory -- 5. “Here’s a Knocking Indeed!” Macbeth and the Harrowing of Hell -- Epilogue: Riding the Banns beyond Shakespeare -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Shakespeare’s Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city’s cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects—as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors—to the Shakespearean stage.As Schreyer shows, the Chester Banns serve as a paradigm for how Shakespeare’s theater might have reflected on and incorporated the mystery play tradition, yet distinguished itself from it. For instance, he demonstrates that certain material features of Shakespeare’s stage—including the ass’s head of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theatrical space of Purgatory in Hamlet, and the knocking at the gate in the Porter scene of Macbeth—were in fact remnants of the earlier mysteries transformed to meet the exigencies of the commercial London playhouses. Schreyer argues that the ongoing agency of supposedly superseded theatrical objects and practices reveal how the mystery plays shaped dramatic production long after their demise. At the same time, these medieval traditions help to reposition Shakespeare as more than a writer of plays; he was a play-wright, a dramatic artisan who forged new theatrical works by fitting poetry to the material remnants of an older dramatic tradition. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Mysteries and miracle-plays, English History and criticism. Literary Studies. Medieval & Renaissance Studies. Performing Arts & Drama. LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. bisacsh mystery plays, english biblical drama, shakespeare and mystery plays, chester banns, shakespearean stage, theatrical objects, interpretations of shakespeare. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110606744 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801455100 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801455100 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801455100/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Toward a Renaissance Culture of Medieval Artifacts -- 2. The Chester Banns: A Sixteenth-Century Perspective on the Mysteries -- 3. Balaam to Bottom: A Sixteenth-Century Translation -- 4. “Then Is Doomsday Near”: Hamlet, the Last Judgment, and the Place of Purgatory -- 5. “Here’s a Knocking Indeed!” Macbeth and the Harrowing of Hell -- Epilogue: Riding the Banns beyond Shakespeare -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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