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Drama and Resistance : Bodies, Goods and Theatricality in Late Medieval England
by Sponsler, Claire
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- ISBN 13
- 9780816629275
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Minor rubbing. VG. Medieval English Drama Univ. of Minnesota Press Minneapolis 1997 orig.wrappers 23x14cm, xvii,209 pp., PAPERBACK. Series: Medieval Cultures, vol. 10. "Explores the intertwined histories of bodily subjectivity, commodity culture and theatricality in late medieval England. In this examination of popular drama in the period from 1350 to 1520, the author argues that many types of performances during this time represented cultural evasions to the imposition of disciplinary power. The medieval theatre was a social site where resistance, masked from the full scrutiny of authority by theatricality, was practised, articulated, and enacted. This text examines three key discourses of authoritarian bodily and commodity control - clothing laws, conduct literature and Books of Hours - and pairs them with three kinds of theatrical performances that enact resistance to disciplining codes - Robin Hood performances, morality plays and Corpus Christi pageants. Considering the contradictions and inconsistencies in the repressive official discourses, the author analyzes the ways in which the staging of forbidden acts like cross-dressing, social and sexual misbehaviour, and violence against the body challenged these discourses" - publisher's desccription.
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- Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
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- Title
- Drama and Resistance : Bodies, Goods and Theatricality in Late Medieval England
- Author
- Sponsler, Claire
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor rubbing. VG.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0816629277
- ISBN 13
- 9780816629275
- Publisher
- Univ. of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Mystery Plays Literary History Literature Criticism England
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