The staging of drama in the medieval church
"From the tenth century until about 1600 the liturgical drama was staged in medieval churches all over Europe. Performed chiefly at Easter and Christmastime, these little plays served both teaching and devotional functions." "The present volume reproduces ground plans and traces on them the performers' paths in the cathedrals of Bamberg (sixteenth century), Besancon (thirteenth and sixteenth centuries), Braunschweig (ca. 1200 and fourteenth century), Essen (fourteenth century), Meissen (1520), Rouen (fourteenth century), and Trier (fourteenth century) - and at Constance (thirteenth through seventeenth centuries) and Gernrode (ca. 1500) and Magdeburg (fifteenth century) with their stone replicas of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2002
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, DE, London, ©2002
Liturgical drama
251 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
9780874137095, 0874137098
45093835
Ch. 1. Winchester and the Visitatio Sepulchri in the Tenth Century
Ch. 2. Plays of the Medieval Church: The Texts
Ch. 3. Staging Space and Patterns of Movement
with Set Pieces and Special Effects
Staging Space and Patterns of Movement
Set Pieces and Special Effects
App. A. Sion: On the Border between Ceremony and Drama
App. B. Movement Patterns of the Performers in the Visitatio Sepulchri at Gernrode
Ch. 4. The Costumes
Ch. 5. Acting
Ch. 6. The Music