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Christian Rite & Christian Drama in the Middle Ages

Door O.B. Hardison

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#349333-VF41
Titel	Christian Rite & Christian Drama in the Middle Ages
Auteur	Hardison, O.B.
Boektype	Paperback met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1969
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, b/w frontispiece, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Originally published in 1965. The European dramatic tradition rests on a group of religious dramas that appeared between the tenth and twelfth centuries. These dramas, of interest in themselves, are also important for the light they shed on three historical and critical problems: the relation of drama to ritual, the nature of dramatic form, and the development of representational techniques. Hardison's approach is based on the history of the Christian liturgy, on critical theories concerning the kinship of ritual and drama, and on close analysis of the chronology and content of the texts themselves. Beginning with liturgical commentaries of the ninth century, Hardison shows that writers of the period consciously interpreted the Mass and cycle of the church year in dramatic terms. By recons... (Lees verder)tructing the services themselves, he shows that they had an emphatic dramatic structure that reached its climax with the celebration of the Resurrection. Turning to the history of the Latin Resurrection play, Hardison suggests that the famous Quem quaeritis—the earliest of all medieval dramas—is best understood in relation to the baptismal rites of the Easter Vigil service. He sets forth a theory of the original form and function of the play based on the content of the earliest manuscripts as well as on vestigial ceremonial elements that survive in the later ones.
Pagina's	328
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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