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Ritual imports : performing medieval drama in America
- Title
- Ritual imports : performing medieval drama in America / Claire Sponsler.
- Author
- Sponsler, Claire.
- Publication
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.
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- Description
- viii, 235 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Ritual Imports is a cultural history of European performance traditions in the New World, from the sixteenth century to the present. Claire Sponsler examines the role of survivals and adaptations of medieval drama in shaping American culture from colonization through nation building and on to today's multicultural society." "Drawing on theories of cultural appropriation, Ritual Imports makes an important contribution to medieval and American studies as well as to cultural studies and the history of theater."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-231) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : performative historiographies : medieval drama and the making of America -- Ch. 1. Performing conquest : the Jemez Matachines dances -- Ch. 2. Selective histories : Albany's Pinkster festival -- Ch. 3. Philadelphia's mummers and the Anglo-Saxon revival -- Ch. 4. Reinventing tradition : Brooklyn's saint play -- Ch. 5. America's passion plays -- Ch. 6. Medieval plays and medievalist players -- Epilogue : the future of imported rituals.
- ISBN
- 0801442958 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004017453
- OCLC
- ocm56051050
- SCSB-5142693
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries