Les mystères : : studies in genre, text and theatricality / / edited by Peter Happé and Wim Hüsken.
This collection of essays in English by scholars of international standing presents new insights into the contexts in which the fifteenth-century French mystères were created. It is centred upon the remarkable outburst of large-scale plays written for urban production and dealing with biblical and h...
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| Superior document: | Ludus : medieval and early Renaissance theatre and drama, 12 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ludus
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Peter Happé
- Mystère, Farce, Moralité: A Reflection upon the Poetics of Drama in the Middle Ages Based on Ms. BnF fr. 904, Passion de Semur (Fifteenth Century), and Some Other Burgundian Manuscripts / Véronique Dominguez
- The Theatricality of Pre- and Post-Performance French Mystery Play Texts / Vicki L. Hamblin
- Michel Adapts Gréban: Some Aspects of the Passion Sequence / Peter Happé
- Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 617: Mystères as Convent Drama / Olivia Robinson
- ‘Haro! Haro! Sus, dyablerie’: The Theatricality of Devils in Temptation Sequences / Charlotte Steenbrugge
- Le Mystère de Saint Sébastien’s Villain: “No Cuckoo is a Sparrowhawk” / Marla Carlson
- La Pucelle and the Godons in the Mistère du Siège d’Orléans: Civic Pageantry and Popular Tradition / Richard Hillman
- “Laisser l’Istoire ... et Moralisier ung Petit”: Aspects of Allegory in the Mystères / Alan Hindley
- Turning a Chanson de Geste into a Mystery, or Non-Religious and Chivalric Mystery Plays / Jelle Koopmans
- Sermons in the Passions of Mercadé, Gréban and Jehan Michel / Charles Mazouer
- A Typology of Catalan Play Manuscripts from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century / Francesc Massip and Lenke Kovács
- Contributors.