Ritual Imports : : Performing Medieval Drama in America /

Ritual Imports : : Performing Medieval Drama in America / / Claire Sponsler.

Throughout the Americas, performances deriving from medieval European rituals, ceremonies, and festivities made up a crucial part of the cultural cargo shipped from Europe to the overseas settlements. In 1583, Sir Humphrey Gilbert sailed from Plymouth, England, to Newfoundland, bringing with him &qu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Sponsler, Claire,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 16 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Performative Historiographies. Medieval Drama and the Making of America
  • CHAPTER 1. Performing Conquest. The Jémez Matachines Dances
  • CHAPTER 2. Selective Histories. Albany’s Pinkster Festival
  • CHAPTER 3. Philadelphia’s Mummers and the Anglo-Saxon Revival
  • CHAPTER 4. Reinventing Tradition. Brooklyn’s Saint Play
  • CHAPTER 5. America’s Passion Plays
  • CHAPTER 6. Medieval Plays and Medievalist Players
  • Epilogue: The Future of Imported Rituals
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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