From page to performance : essays in early English drama / edited by John A. Alford
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1995. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #426068
ISBN: 0870133799
Physical description; ix, 266 pages : illustrations, maps. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The mass as performance text / T.P. Dolan -- From Mappa Mundi to Theatrum Mundi : the world as stage in early English drama / Martin Stevens -- Asleep onstage / David Bevington -- Acting Mary : the emotional realism of the mature Virgin in the N-Town plays / Alexandra F. Johnston -- The performance of some Wakefield master plays on the University of Illinois campus / John B. Friedman -- The problem with Mrs. Noah : the search for performance credibility in the Chester Noah's flood play / William G. Marx -- The theaters of Everyman / David Mills -- "My name is worship" : masquerading vice in Medwall's Nature / John A. Alford -- Plays, players, and playwrights in Renaissance Oxford / John R. Elliott, Jr. -- English chronicle contexts for Shakespeare's death of Richard II / Lister M. Matheson -- Family by death : stage images in Titus Andronicus and The winter's tale / Randal Robinson -- Bearing "A wary eye" : ludic vengeance and doubtful suicide in Hamlet / Philip C. McGuire. Subjects; English drama 17th century. To 1699. English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism. Mysteries and miracle-plays, English History and criticism. Christian drama, English (Middle) History and criticism. English drama 17th century History and criticism. English drama To 1500 History and criticism. Bible plays, English History and criticism.
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