Farce and farcial elements / / edited by Wim Husken & Konrad Schoell, in conjunction with Leif Soendergaard.
Farcical elements were incorporated into non-comic drama ever since the theatre had been rediscovered in the Middle Ages. Already at a very early stage, comic scenes proved to be popular additions to liturgical music drama and, later, to religious plays in the vernacular. Some scholars believe that...
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| Superior document: | Ludus |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : BRILL,, 2002. |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ludus.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (223 pages) |
| Notes: | "Ludus: medieval and early Renaissance theatre and drama"--Preliminary page. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Wim Hüsken and Konrad Schoell
- Farcical Elements in the English Mystery Cycles / Peter Happé
- Mockery, Farce, and Risus Paschalis in the York Christ before Herod / Michael O’Connell
- Mirth and Mockery: The Devil’s Way / Charlotte Spivack
- Farce and Farcical Elements in the English Interludes, or: How the Vice beat the Farce / Jean Paul Debax
- Chaucer, Medieval Drama and a Newly Discovered Seventeenth-Century Play: The Survival of Medieval Stereotypes? / Elizabeth Baldwin
- L’Individu et le Groupe Social dans la Farce / Konrad Schoell
- Les Eléments Farcesques dans la Sottie Française / Jelle Koopmans
- “Le Silence est le bouclier de la sagesse”: Le Dialogo da Ressurreição de Gil Vicente / Maria José Palla
- Combat Between the Genders: Farcical Elements in the German Fastnachtspiel / Leif Søndergaard
- Das heiß eysen, un Jeu de Carnaval de Hans Sachs / Marie Lesaffre
- La Reception du Décaméron dans les Jeux de Carnaval de Hans Sachs / Danielle Buschinger
- From Revelry to Reality: Drinking, Poverty and Salvation in Hans Rudolf Manuel’s Weinspiel / Joe G. Delap.