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Gender and Medieval Drama

By Katie Normington

Gender and Medieval Drama Drama

Gender and Medieval Drama

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The focus of this study is upon the Corpus Christi plays, supplemented by other performance practices such as festive and social entertainments, civic parades, funeral processions and public punishments. The main argument relates to the traditional approaches to women's non-performance in the Corpus Christi dramas, but other factors are considered and analysed, including the semiotics of the cross-dressed actor and the significance of the visual and spatial language of the processional stage to gender debates. In conclusion, there is a series of readings which reassess the dramatic portrayal of a selection of holy and vulgar women - the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, Mrs Noah and Dame Procula. The emphasis throughout the book is upon a performance-based analysis. Evidence from Records of Early English Drama, social, literary and cultural sources are drawn together in order to investigate how performances within the late Middle Ages were both shaped by, and shaped, the public image of women.
KATIE NORMINGTON is Lecturer in Drama, Royal Holloway, London.
Product details
Number of Pages:
172
Release Date:
2006-01-05
Publication Date:
2006-01-05
Publisher:
D.S.Brewer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1843840278
ISBN13:
9781843840275
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
429 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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