Saints at Play
The Performance Features of French Hagiographic Mystery Plays
By (author) Vicki L. Hamblin
Hardback (Published)
(February 2013)
ISBN: 9781580441674
6.14 x 9.21 inches
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Study of twenty-eight French nonbiblical hagiographic mystery plays from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the approach is intended to strengthen a comparative analysis of relatively similar texts created within a particular cultural setting.
In the introduction to her study of twenty-eight French nonbiblical hagiographic mystery plays from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Hamblin notes that “this approach is intended to strengthen a comparative analysis of relatively similar texts created within a particular cultural setting. [The plays’] somewhat parallel narrative and performative structures facilitate their comparison as performance remnants … To that end, the first three chapters of this study will investigate the cultural contexts in which these plays were produced and performed, as well as the cultural content that spoke to and for the communities that created them. In two subsequent chapters, the performance features of these remnants, verbal and nonverbal, textual and supratextual, will be compared in search of evidence of a collective performance history … My hope is … to suggest a more performative reading of the works within recognized cultural parameters by examining a set number of saints’ plays across cultural, thematic, and performance lines.”
Contents
Tables
Abbreviations: Study-Set of Nonbiblical Hagiographic Mystery Plays in French
Introduction
1. "Grans et petis vueillez vous taire": Communities at Play
2. "Entendés si voulés aprandre": Genre, Content, Identity
3. "Tout cecy sera récité": Texts and Contexts
4. "Vous pouez veoir en ce repaire": Theatrical Spaces and Places
5. "Et qui doyt commencer commence": Performing the Plays
Conclusion "Que voiz cy le livre achevé": Reading Performance
Bibliography
Index
- By (author) Vicki L. Hamblin
Other Titles in this Series
Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions
Volume II, Part 1. Introduction and Textual Notes
Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions
Volume II, Part 2. Commentary, Bibliography and Indexical Glossary
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