Gesture in Medieval Drama and Art
Edited by Clifford Davidson
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(May 2001)
ISBN: 9781580440295
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(May 2001)
ISBN: 9781580440288
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Gesture and movement on stage in early drama have previously received very little attention in scholarship. The present collection of essays is the first book to present sensible, penetrating, and wide-ranging discussions of the gestural effects that were integral to the early stage. In addition to consideration of the influence of classical rhetoric and reference to medieval texts and documents, the essays carefully bring to bear evidence from the art of the period and hence will be of great importance for those interested in the visual arts as well as the theater; eschewing both the naive methodologies promoted in past criticism and ephemeral theoretical concerns, the book is truly ground-breaking. These essays will need to be perused by every serious theater historian or student of art concerned with the late Middle Ages.
Illustrations Preface Of Miming and Signing: The Dramatic Rhetoric of Gesture by Jody Enders Gesture and Characterization in the Liturgical Drama by Dunbar H. Ogden Offering the Forbidden Fruit in MS. Junius 11 by Janet Schrunk Ericksen Gesture in Medieval British Drama by Clifford Davidson Gestures of Greeting: Annunciations, Sacred and Secular by Barbara D. Palmer The Body in Motion in the York Adam and Eve in Eden by Natalie Crohn Schmitt Gesture and Audience: The Passion and Duccio's Maesta by Beth A. Mulvaney Body Language in Jeu de Robin et Marion: The Aix Witness by Jesse Hurlbut Index, Illustrations
Preface
Of Miming and Signing: The Dramatic Rhetoric of Gesture by Jody Enders
Gesture and Characterization in the Liturgical Drama by Dunbar H. Ogden
Offering the Forbidden Fruit in MS. Junius 11 by Janet Schrunk Ericksen
Gesture in Medieval British Drama by Clifford Davidson
Gestures of Greeting: Annunciations, Sacred and Secular by Barbara D. Palmer
The Body in Motion in the York Adam and Eve in Eden by Natalie Crohn Schmitt
Gesture and Audience: The Passion and Duccio's Maestà by Beth A. Mulvaney
Body Language in Jeu de Robin et Marion: The Aix Witness" by Jesse Hurlbut
Index
- Edited by Clifford Davidson
Other Titles in this Series
Word, Picture, and Spectacle
Papers by Karl P. Wentersdorf, Roger Ellis, Clifford Davidson, and R. W. Hanning
Crossing the Boundaries
Christian Piety and the Arts in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Confraternities
The Monophonic Lauda and the Lay Religious Confraternities of Tuscany and Umbria in the Late Middle Ages
Shakespeare’s Play within Play
Medieval Imagery and Scenic Form in "Hamlet," "Othello," and "King Lear"
Drama and Art
An Introduction to the Use of Evidence from the Visual Arts for the Study of Early Drama
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