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Covering a period of nearly 40 years’ work by the author this collection of essays in the __Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies__ series brings the perspective of a Drama academic and practitioner of early English plays to the understanding of how medieval plays and Robin Hood games of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were performed. It explores why, where, when, and how the plays happened, who took part, and who were the audiences. The insights are informed by a combination of research and the public presentation of surviving texts. The research included in the volume unites the early English experiences of religious and secular performance. This recognition challenges the dominant critical distinction of the past between the two and the consequent privileging of biblical and moral plays over secular entertainments. What further binds, rather than separates, the two is that the destination of funds raised by the different activities maintained the civic and parochial needs of the institutions upon which the people depended. This collection redefines the inclusive nature and common interests of the purposes that lay behind generically different undertakings. They
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- Author
- John Marshall, Philip Butterworth
- Publisher
- Routledge; Ashgate
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780429765001
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Literary Fiction, Fiction
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