Research Catalog

Title

The medieval theatre in the round : a study of the staging of The castle of perseverance and related matters / by Richard Southern.

Author

Southern, Richard.

Publication

London : Faber, 1975.

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Details

Description

xxi, 264 pages, folded leaf, leaf of plates, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Castle of perseverance (Morality play)
• Castle of Perseverance
• To 1500
• Theater > England > History > Medieval, 500-1500
• Theaters > Stage-setting and scenery > England
• English drama > To 1500 > History and criticism
• Moralities, English > History and criticism
• Drama, Medieval > History and criticism
• Arena theater
• arena theaters
• 24.06 history of theatre
• Drama, Medieval
• English drama
• Moralities, English
• Theater > Medieval
• Theaters > Stage-setting and scenery
• Aufführung
• Aufführungspraxis
• The castle of perseverance (anoniem)
• Ensceneringen
• Theater > Great Britain > Medieval, 500-1500
• Theaters > Stage-setting and scenery > Greece
• England

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Index.

Contents

The plot and the characters -- References to the 'place' on the plan -- Allusions to the 'place' in the dialogue -- The Latin stage directions and their references to the 'place' -- The ditch and the hill round the 'place' -- The dimensions of the Cornish rounds -- On the dynamics of the place-crowd and on the stytelerys -- The scaffolds of the Fouquet miniature -- References to the scaffolds in the dialogue -- The provisional anatomy of a scaffold -- Reconstructing the theatre -- The presentation analysed -- On the use of the 'place' and the platea in medieval theatre generally -- Place, scaffolds and costumes in the Ordinalia.

ISBN

• 0571048544
• 9780571048540

LCCN

75316768

OCLC

• ocm01403130
• 1403130
• SCSB-119615

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library