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REVIEW: The Ballad of Robin Hood

Medievalists.net — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:25:07 +0000

Over the holiday season, Southwark Playhouse is presenting their reinterpretation of The Ballad of Robin Hood.

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Festival of Early Drama takes place in Toronto from June 5th to 7th

Medievalists.net — Sun, 31 May 2015 20:51:56 +0000

Poculi Ludique Societas (PLS) continues its year-long celebration of fifty years of performance research practice at the University of Toronto with the Festival of Early Drama.

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Imagining Islam: The Role of Images in Medieval Depictions of Muslims

Medievalists.net — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 23:02:11 +0000

Instead, one finds accurate, even rather compassionate accounts of Islamic theology side by side with bizarre, antagonistic, and even hateful depictions of Muslims and their belief.

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An actress’ approach to the role of Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion In Winter by James Goldman

Medievalists.net — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:59:22 +0000

The story of her struggle with her husband, Henry II, at the time of the death of their eldest son, Henry the Young King, in 1183, has been made into a play by James Goldman, called The Lion in Winter, which was produced successfully on Broadway in March, 1966.

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The Saint’s Play in Medieval England

Medievalists.net — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 01:34:44 +0000

Plays about saints—their lives, martyrdoms, and miracles—flourished in England for more than three centuries side-by-side with the Corpus Christi cycles.

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Religious Education as the Basis of Medieval Literature

Medievalists.net — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:59:16 +0000

The medieval literature was written with a purpose to teach Christian dogmas to the masses. The prose and poetry of the time meant to show men the ugliness of sin and the beauty of goodness.

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THINGS TO SEE: Murder in the Cathedral

Medievalists.net — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:12:24 +0000

This is my review of the T.S. Eliot's play, "Murder in the Cathedral", on at St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, London.

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Staging Medievalisms: Touching the Middle Ages through Contemporary Performance

Medievalists.net — Tue, 13 May 2014 21:40:14 +0000

Examining the Middle Ages through modern eyes: movies, TV, stage, tourism and books. How do we perform the Middle Ages?

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Substitution: Theatrical Sleight of Hand in Medieval Plays

Medievalists.net — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:50:05 +0000

Substitution is concerned with replacing one thing with another. This is straight forward enough. But to what extent is the replacement indistinguishable from the original in order to qualify as substitution?

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‘The Best Paper Assignment Ever!’ Teaching Medieval Drama Through Writing

Medievalists.net — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:54:59 +0000

I still want students to move from the page to the stage, and to think of the cultural contexts of performance in the past and in our present, especially since so much of medieval drama's richness is only apparent in the fullness of its cultural and historical contexts.

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