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Vision and audience in medieval drama : a study of The Castle of Perseverance

Title

Vision and audience in medieval drama : a study of The Castle of Perseverance / Andrea Louise Young.

Author

Young, Andrea Louise, 1982-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
©2015

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Description

228 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This book presents a re-evaluation of The Castle of Perseverance, the longest and earliest complete morality play in English. It argues that vision - as a physical, moral, and cognitive process - is the organizing principle that informs this play's staging, structure and narrative, and its constantly shifting actor/audience relationships. Theories such as intromission and extramission, and their associated power shifts, are placed alongside a re-interpretation of the famous stage plan, approaching the text in terms of spectator experience. The writings of Augustine, Grosseteste, and Peter of Limoges are also explored. This study will take the reader through the play in the same way that it unfolds for the audience members, in keeping with the audience experience approach. The visual culture of East Anglia, and its textiles in particular, are also identified as central to the play's moral and dramatic work and the battle at the center of the play. "--

Series Statement

The new Middle Ages

Uniform Title

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Vision, Visuality, and the Audience -- 2. Staging The Castle of Perseverance -- 3. Angelic Visions -- 4. The Castle of Light -- 5. Vision and Visuality: The Battle of the Banners -- 6. The End of Play and the Gaze of God -- Appendix A: Plotting the play -- explanatory notes -- Appendix B: Plotting out the play on the ground.

Call Number

JFD 15-2946

ISBN

9781137465597
113746559X
9781137446084 (canceled/invalid)
9781137446077 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015012264

OCLC

909321199

Author

Young, Andrea Louise, 1982- author.

Title

Vision and audience in medieval drama : a study of The Castle of Perseverance / Andrea Louise Young.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The new Middle Ages

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-2946

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