Free Download Kurt A. Schreyer, "Shakespeare's Medieval Craft: Remnants of the Mysteries on the London Stage"
English | ISBN: 0801452902 | 2014 | 280 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Shakespeare's Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare's plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare's connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city's cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects―as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors―to the Shakespearean stage.
As Schreyer shows, the Chester Banns serve as a paradigm for how Shakespeare's theater might have reflected on and incorporated the mystery play tradition, yet distinguished itself from it. For instance, he demonstrates that certain material features of Shakespeare's stage―including the ass's head of
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