A Common Stage : : Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras /

A Common Stage : : Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras / / Carol Symes.

Medieval Arras was a thriving town on the frontier between the kingdom of France and the county of Flanders, and home to Europe's earliest surviving vernacular plays: The Play of St. Nicholas, The Courtly Lad of Arras, The Boy and the Blind Man, The Play of the Bower, and The Play about Robin a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Symes, Carol,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2007
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 1 table, 2 maps, 25 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ON TERMINOLOGY AND TRANSLATION
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION. LOCATING A MEDIEVAL THEATER
  • CHAPTER ONE. A HISTORY PLAY: THE JEU DE SAINT NICOLAS AND THE WORLD OF ARRAS
  • CHAPTER TWO. PRODIGALS AND JONGLEURS: INITIATIVE AND AGENCY IN A THEATER TOWN
  • CHAPTER THREE. ACCESS TO THE MEDIA: PUBLICITY, PARTICIPATION, AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
  • CHAPTER FOUR. RELICS AND RITES: "THE PLAY OF THE BOWER" AND OTHER PLAYS
  • CHAPTER FIVE. LIVES IN THE THEATER
  • CONCLUSION. ON LOOKING INTO A MEDIEVAL THEATER
  • APPENDIX
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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