Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Abbreviations of Principal Sources Cited
- Introduction
- Synopses
- 1 From Archive to Repertoire: The Disguising at Hertford and Performing Practices
- 2 Walk, Talk, Sit, Quit? On What Happens in Netherlandish Rhetoricians’ Plays
- 3 Performing Intrusions: Interaction and Interaxionality in Medieval English Theatre
- 4 Player Transformation: The Role of Clothing and Disguise
- 5 Pavilioned in Splendour: Performing Heaven in Fifteenth-Century Florence
- 6 Living Pictures: Drama without Text, Drama without Action
- 7 Performer-Audience Relationships in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Danced Spectacles
- 8 Decadance in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of Choreomania
- 9 Writing, Telling and Showing Horsemanship in Rhetoricians’ Farce
- 10 Inanimate Performers: The Animation and Interpretive Versatility of the Palmesel
- 11 ‘lyke unto a lyvelye thyng’: The Boxley Rood of Grace and Medieval Performance
- 12 The Mechanycalle ‘Ymage off Seynt Iorge’ at St Botolph's, Billingsgate, 1474
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2018
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Abbreviations of Principal Sources Cited
- Introduction
- Synopses
- 1 From Archive to Repertoire: The Disguising at Hertford and Performing Practices
- 2 Walk, Talk, Sit, Quit? On What Happens in Netherlandish Rhetoricians’ Plays
- 3 Performing Intrusions: Interaction and Interaxionality in Medieval English Theatre
- 4 Player Transformation: The Role of Clothing and Disguise
- 5 Pavilioned in Splendour: Performing Heaven in Fifteenth-Century Florence
- 6 Living Pictures: Drama without Text, Drama without Action
- 7 Performer-Audience Relationships in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Danced Spectacles
- 8 Decadance in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of Choreomania
- 9 Writing, Telling and Showing Horsemanship in Rhetoricians’ Farce
- 10 Inanimate Performers: The Animation and Interpretive Versatility of the Palmesel
- 11 ‘lyke unto a lyvelye thyng’: The Boxley Rood of Grace and Medieval Performance
- 12 The Mechanycalle ‘Ymage off Seynt Iorge’ at St Botolph's, Billingsgate, 1474
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Chapter
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- Medieval Theatre PerformanceActors, Dancers, Automata and their Audiences, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2017