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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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Love and Marriage on the Medieval English Stage: Using the English Cycle Plays as Sources for Social History

Medievalists.net — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:53:04 +0000

Much scholarship concerning the concept of “companionate” marriage traces its origins to the early modern period as clergymen, especially Protestant ones, began to publish “guides” to the relationships and respective duties of husbands and wives in the 1500s and 1600s.

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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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The Depiction of Jews in the Carnival Plays and Comedies of Hans Folz and Hans Sachs in Early Modern Nuremberg

Medievalists.net — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:08:01 +0000

This study will thus demonstrate that the Bakhtinian model and its critics both contribute to our understanding of the Fastnachtspiel and the development of early modern German attitudes toward Jews.

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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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Poetics and beyond: noisy bodies and aural variations in medieval English outdoor performance

Medievalists.net — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:57:03 +0000

Pilate opens the Tapiters and Couchers guild’s pageant of Christ before Pilate I in the York Corpus Christi Play by asserting himself acoustically, threatening those who ‘cruelly are cry and’.

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Caught in the (One-)Act: Staging Sex in Late Medieval French Farce

Medievalists.net — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:37:04 +0000

Caught in the (One-)Act: Staging Sex in Late Medieval French Farce Sharon D. King Paper given at the 14th Triennial Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’étude du Théâtre Médiéval Poznań, Poland, 22nd – 27th July (2013) Abstract Among the myriad subjects for comical delectation of audiences of late medieval France,the rules and roles of […]

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Taking (and Giving) Blows: Patterns of Violence and Spectacle in Le Mystère de Saint Martin (1496)

Medievalists.net — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 02:24:36 +0000

What I would like to do here is examine the passages of violence and other bits of scenography, moving from the macro to the micro level and back again, over the three- day play. With 260 rubrics (stage directions) embodied in the text, a manuscript nearly contemporaneous with the performance itself, we have a unique opportunity to visualize much of the action on stage.

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