Studies in Fifteenth-Century Stagecraft
By (author) J. W. Robinson
Paperback (Out of print)
(December 1991)
ISBN: 9780918720399
Price: $39.95
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Hardback (Published)
(July 1991)
ISBN: 9780918720382
6.14 x 9.21 inches
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A close study of eight plays and the elements Robinson considers essential to performance: playwright, sponsors, location, plot, script, players, and audience.
Before he suddenly passed away, John W. Robinson was working on a manuscript that he saw as effecting a marriage between the dramatic and the theatrical, as he felt there was too large a divide between literary scholars and practitioners of the theater. In it, Robinson stated that his purpose it to expound as plays the New Testament plays of the Wakefield Master and some of the related York plays, including two by the York Realist. . . . hop[ing] to show that the meaning and effect of the Wakefield Master’s and York Realist’s plays will not appear unless they are approached with the understanding that they were performed, with some idea of how they were performed, and with some appreciation of what they meant to a medieval audience. That manuscript is presented here, a close study of eight plays and the elements Robinson considers essential to performance: playwright, sponsors, location, plot, script, players, and audience.
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Wakefield Master and the York Realist: Playwrights, Playing, Players, and Audience
The York Play of the Nativity
The York Shepherds' Play and the First Shepherds' Play
The Second Shepherds' Play
The York Play of the Slaughter of the Innocents and the Play of Herod the Great
The York Play of Christ before Annas and Caiaphas and the Wakefield Master's Play of the Buffeting of Christ
Notes
Index
- By (author) J. W. Robinson
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