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Memory And Remembering: Sacred History And The York Plays, Clifford Davidson Apr 2016

Memory And Remembering: Sacred History And The York Plays, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Against a background which included revolutionary changes in religious belief, extensive enlargement of dramatic styles and the technological innovation of printing, this collection of essays about biblical drama offers innovative approaches to text and performance, while reviewing some well-established critical issues. The Bible in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries appears in a complex of roles in relation to the drama: as an authority and centre of belief, a place of controversy, an emotional experience and, at times, a weapon. This collection brings into focus the new biblical learning, including the re-editing of biblical texts, as well as classical influences, and …


Timon Of Athens: The Iconography Of False Friendship, Clifford Davidson Dec 2015

Timon Of Athens: The Iconography Of False Friendship, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The realization that iconographic tableaux appear at central points in the drama of Shakespeare no longer seems to involve a radical critical perspective. Thus a recent study is able to show convincingly that the playwright presented audiences with a Hamlet who upon his first appearance on stage illustrated what the Renaissance would certainly have recognized as the melancholic contemplative personality. As I have noted in a previous article, the hero of Macbeth when he sees the bloody dagger before him is in fact perceiving the image which most clearly denotes tragedy itself; in the emblem books, the dagger is indeed …


York Art: A Subject List Of Extant And Lost Art, Clifford Davidson, David O'Connor Dec 2015

York Art: A Subject List Of Extant And Lost Art, Clifford Davidson, David O'Connor

Clifford Davidson

A list, classified by subject, of extant and lost art from pre-Reformation York originally compiled by Clifford Davidson and David E. O'Connor in 1978 and updated by Clifford Davidson, apparently in 2003. This digital reprint was created in 2014 for ScholarWorks at WMU.


Staging The York Creation, And Fall Of Lucifer, Clifford Davidson Dec 2015

Staging The York Creation, And Fall Of Lucifer, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The Creation, and Fall of Lucifer by the York Realist was intended to provide a spectacular opening for the Corpus Christi cycle, of which the city of York felt very proud in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Since the York Realist appears to have been particularly sensitive to the conditions of production, this opening play provides a useful focus for attention to the staging used in the York cycle. The internal evidence of the Realist's Creation, and Fall of Lucifer demonstrates that he was not writing a mere literary exercise, but kept in mind the specifics of stage production.


Iconography: A Checklist Of Some Useful Sources For Scholars And Students Of Medieval Art And Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 2015

Iconography: A Checklist Of Some Useful Sources For Scholars And Students Of Medieval Art And Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

A classified bibliography of scholarship on medieval drama, art, and music compiled by Clifford Davidson in 2002. This reprint was created in 2014 for ScholarWorks at WMU, with some corrections to the content and the formatting of the 2002 version.


The Early Drama, Art, And Music Project: Publications 1977-2002, Timothy Christiansen, Clifford Davidson Dec 2015

The Early Drama, Art, And Music Project: Publications 1977-2002, Timothy Christiansen, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

A bibliography of publications of the Early Drama, Art, and Music project at Western Michigan University, originally compiled by Timothy Christiansen and updated in 2002 by Clifford Davidson. This digital reprint was created in 2014 for ScholarWorks at WMU, with an addendum, an update, and a few corrections to the formatting of the 2002 publication.


Rev. Of Clayton G. Mackenzie, Deadly Experiments: A Study Of Icons And Emblems Of Mortality In Christopher Marlowe’S Plays, Clifford Davidson Dec 2010

Rev. Of Clayton G. Mackenzie, Deadly Experiments: A Study Of Icons And Emblems Of Mortality In Christopher Marlowe’S Plays, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Bullying In The York Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson, Shelia White Dec 2009

Bullying In The York Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson, Shelia White

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Dux Moraud: Criminality And Salvation In An East Anglian Play, Clifford Davidson Dec 2008

Dux Moraud: Criminality And Salvation In An East Anglian Play, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Demonstration Performance Of The Cividale Planctus Mariae: A Report, Eric Strand, Matthew Steel, Clifford Davidson Dec 2007

Demonstration Performance Of The Cividale Planctus Mariae: A Report, Eric Strand, Matthew Steel, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Rev. Of Theresa Coletti, Mary Magdalene And The Drama Of Saints, Clifford Davidson May 2006

Rev. Of Theresa Coletti, Mary Magdalene And The Drama Of Saints, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Bodley Christ’S Burial And Christ’S Resurrection: Vernacular Dramas For Good Friday And Easter, Clifford Davidson Dec 2002

The Bodley Christ’S Burial And Christ’S Resurrection: Vernacular Dramas For Good Friday And Easter, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Reprint in Festivals and Plays, 169–85.


Rev. Of Lynn Forest-Hill, Transgressive Language In Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 2001

Rev. Of Lynn Forest-Hill, Transgressive Language In Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Rev. Of Kathleen Ashley And Wim Hüsken, Moving Subjects: Processional Performance In The Middle Ages And The Renaissance, Clifford Davidson Dec 2001

Rev. Of Kathleen Ashley And Wim Hüsken, Moving Subjects: Processional Performance In The Middle Ages And The Renaissance, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Violence And The Saint Play, Clifford Davidson Dec 2000

Violence And The Saint Play, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Rev. Of Lois A. Cuddy, T. S. Eliot And The Poetics Of Evolution, Clifford Davidson Dec 2000

Rev. Of Lois A. Cuddy, T. S. Eliot And The Poetics Of Evolution, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Rev. Of Michael O’Connell, The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm And Theater In Early-Modern England, Clifford Davidson Dec 1999

Rev. Of Michael O’Connell, The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm And Theater In Early-Modern England, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Sacred Blood And The Late Medieval Stage, Clifford Davidson Dec 1996

Sacred Blood And The Late Medieval Stage, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in History, Religion, and Violence, pp. 180-204.


The History Of King Lear And The Problem Of Belief, Clifford Davidson Dec 1995

The History Of King Lear And The Problem Of Belief, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Positional Symbolism And Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1990

Positional Symbolism And Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in Iconographic and Comparative Studies.


Rev. Of John R. Elliott, Jr., Playing God, In University Of Toronto Quarterly, Clifford Davidson Dec 1989

Rev. Of John R. Elliott, Jr., Playing God, In University Of Toronto Quarterly, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Function Of Rhetoric, Marlowe’S Tamburlaine, And ‘Reciprocal Illumination’, Audrey Davidson, Clifford Davidson Dec 1980

The Function Of Rhetoric, Marlowe’S Tamburlaine, And ‘Reciprocal Illumination’, Audrey Davidson, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


On The Uses Of Iconographic Study: The Example Of The Sponsus From St. Martial Of Limoges, Clifford Davidson Dec 1978

On The Uses Of Iconographic Study: The Example Of The Sponsus From St. Martial Of Limoges, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in Drama in the Middle Ages.


The Young Milton, Orpheus, And Poetry, Clifford Davidson Dec 1977

The Young Milton, Orpheus, And Poetry, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Masque Within The Tempest, Clifford Davidson Dec 1975

The Masque Within The Tempest, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Erotic "Women’S Songs" In Anglo-Saxon England, Clifford Davidson Dec 1974

Erotic "Women’S Songs" In Anglo-Saxon England, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

More than a decade ago, Kemp Malone asserted that The Wife's Lament and Wulf and Eadwacer are two surviving examples in Old English of Frauenlieder or, as I shall prefer to call them, "women's songs" Malone's argument, insofar as it applies to The Wife's Lament, has been forcefully challenged by Rudolph C. Bambas and Martin Stevens, both of whom question the assumption that the feminine forms in the poem point to a woman speaker. My paper will not once again sift the linguistic evidence to attempt to argue this matter one way or another, but rather, accepting Malone's belief …


Organic Unity And Shakespearian Tragedy, Clifford Davidson Dec 1970

Organic Unity And Shakespearian Tragedy, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Sins Of The Flesh In The Fourteenth-Century Middle English ‘Land Of Cokaygne’, Clifford Davidson Dec 1969

The Sins Of The Flesh In The Fourteenth-Century Middle English ‘Land Of Cokaygne’, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Idol Of Isis Church, Clifford Davidson Dec 1968

The Idol Of Isis Church, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Dialectic Of Temptation, Clifford Davidson Dec 1966

The Dialectic Of Temptation, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.