Early Performers and Performance in the Northeast of England

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Edited by Diana Wyatt, John McKinnell

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: June 2021
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781641893459
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781641893459

Subjects:: Drama and Theatre: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies

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This collection explores the evidence for a wide variety of performance traditions up to 1642 in the northeast region of England which was among those most remote from London. While noble and religious houses in the northeast often patronized visiting performers and might be aware of developments in the capital, the region also had lively performance traditions of its own, on every level of society, from the wedding revels, sporting activities, and household fools of major noble families, through civic plays and processions, to the customary annual performances of hunters and ploughmen. The book considers the political, economic, religious, and psychological impulses that affected these traditions, and its closing chapter addresses their possible relevance to the culture of the region today.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp xi-xxvi

Chapter 1 - Comic Performance in the Tudor and Stuart Percy Households
pp 1-14

Chapter 2 - Wedding Revels at the Earl of Northumberland’s Household
pp 15-30

Chapter 3 - Weddings and Wives in some West Riding Performance Records
pp 31-38

Chapter 4 - Travelling Players on the North Yorkshire Moors
pp 39-50

Chapter 5 - Travelling Players in the East Riding of Yorkshire
pp 51-62

Chapter 6 - Northern Catholics, Equestrian Sports, and the Gunpowder Plot
pp 63-76

Chapter 7 - Wool, Cloth, and Economic Movement: Journeying with the York and Towneley Shepherds
pp 77-92

Chapter 8 - Visiting Players in the Durham Records: An Exotic Monster, a French Magician, and Scottish Ministralli
pp 93-110

Chapter 9 - Rural and Urban Folk Ceremonies in County Durham
pp 111-130

Chapter 10 - Rush-bearings of Yorkshire West Riding
pp 131-146

Chapter 11 - Boy Bishops in Medieval Durham
pp 147-160

Chapter 12 - Regional Performance as Intangible Cultural Heritage
pp 161-182

Bibliography
pp 183-204

Index
pp 205-219

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