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Carol Symes - A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras - 9780801445811 - V9780801445811
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A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras

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Description for A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras Hardback. Series: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past. Num Pages: 376 pages, 28. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 168 x 28. Weight in Grams: 771.

Medieval Arras was a thriving town on the frontier between the kingdom of France and the county of Flanders, and home to Europe's earliest surviving vernacular plays: The Play of St. Nicholas, The Courtly Lad of Arras, The Boy and the Blind Man, The Play of the Bower, and The Play about Robin and about Marion. In A Common Stage, Carol Symes undertakes a cultural archeology of these artifacts, analyzing the processes by which a handful of entertainments were conceived, transmitted, received, and recorded during the thirteenth century. She then places the resulting scripts alongside other documented performances with which ... Read more

The result is a book that closes the gap between the scattered textual remnants of medieval drama and the culture of performance from which that drama emerged. A Common Stage thus challenges the prevalent understanding of theater history while offering the first comprehensive history of a community often credited with the invention of French as a powerful literary language.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Series
Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801445811
SKU
V9780801445811
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Carol Symes
Carol Symes is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Reviews for A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras
Carol Symes analyzes five of Europe's earliest vernacular plays created in the medieval town of Arras.... She entertains and educates in this most revealing book, making interesting connections between the public sphere and the creation and performance of plays.... Symes seamlessly melds multiple disciplines, utilizing text analysis as well as drawing upon the historical record to create a unique English-language ... Read more

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