Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions) (Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought, 113)

Robert E. Stillman [Editor]

ISBN 10: 9004149287 / ISBN 13: 9789004149281

Published by Brill Academic Publishers, 2006

About this Item

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good condition. Corners square, binding is strong. Title and copyright pages dated 2006. 257 pages. Pages are crisp and clean. We are a real brick and mortar bookstore and ship books everyday. This listing was written by an actual person with the book in front of them for inspection. Please email with questions or to see any photos.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions) (Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought, 113)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004149287
• ISBN 13: 9789004149281
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

No volume about the spectacles and public performances of early modern England could pretend to treat comprehensively a body of materials so conspicuously vast. Rather than efforts to survey the territory, these essays are best understood in the original sense of the term as “essays”―as trials, attempts, experiments to open alternative ways of understanding that vast corpus of mystery plays, civic pageants, court masques and professional dramas that constitute its subject. The book crosses traditional period lines, including studies of Medieval as well as Renaissance entertainments. Once more, the essays are not organized according to a single critical or historical methodology. They employ an eclectic range of interpretive practices, reflecting the variety of interpretive approaches now current in the field.

Contributors include: Tiffany J. Alkan, Robert W. Barrett, Jr., Sarah Beckwith, Tom Bishop, Peter Cockett, Richard K. Emmerson, Peter Holland, Nora Johnson, Richard C. McCoy, Lauren Shohet, and Robert E. Stillman.

About the Author

Robert E. Stillman, Ph.D (1979) in English, University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has published widely on the literature and culture of the English Renaissance, and is completing a new book about Sidney's poetics.