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The Dramatic Tradition Of The Middle Ages, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The twenty-five essays in this collection provide unusual insights into early European drama. Written by American, European, and Japanese scholars, the contributions focus on such subjects as recent discoveries of medieval music-dramas and the conditions of their composition and performance pictorial elements in English and Continental vemacular drama, the later history of medieval drama, and secular plays and playing. The articles first appeared in The Early Drama, Art, and Music Review, which was the official journal of the EDAM project at the Medieval institute Western Michigan University and are included here for their unique contribution to drama studies. Altogether, the …

The York Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The feast of Corpus Christi, celebrated annually on Thursday after Trinity Sunday, was devoted to the Eucharist, and the normal practice was to have solemn processions through the city with the Host, the consecrated wafer that was believed to have been transformed into the true body and blood of Jesus. In this way the “cultus Dei” thus celebrated allowed the people to venerate the Eucharistic bread in order that they might be stimulated to devotion and brought symbolically, even mystically into a relationship with the central moments of salvation history. Perhaps it is logical, therefore, that pageants and plays were …

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

Clifford Davidson

Corpus Christi Plays At York: A Context For Religious Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

For roughly two centuries, the streets of the city of York were home to the annual performance of a cycle of mystery plays held in conjunction with the festival of Corpus Christi. Remarkable as the resilience of such an event is, no scholar has yet to survey fully the plays' urban setting, especially with a view to understanding how and why they might have continued to appeal to citizens and spectators. One theory has been that the City of York made the guilds perform the plays. Yet, as Davidson argues, this is not a satisfactory solution, despite the admittedly coercive …

Everyman, And Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc, Clifford Davidson, Martin Walsh, Ton Broos

Clifford Davidson

No abstract provided.

Selected Studies In Drama And Renaissance Literature, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Deliver Us From Evil: Essays On Symbolic Engagement In Early Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The focus of this book is on the reality of evil for medieval and Renaissance dramatists and their audiences. What propels the work beyond similar critiques is the author's insistence that evil is not an outmoded feature of past societies, but an active ingredient of contemporary life. Davidson fast forwards from distant times once described as "calamitous" to a century of far more violence and atrocity - our own twentieth and its overflow. While drawing on Kant to illuminate the kinds of evil portrayed in early drama through Marlowe and Shakespeare, Davidson refers to contemporary events that scream for an …

History, Religion, And Violence: Cultural Contexts For Medieval And Renaissance Drama, Variorum Series, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Reprinted essays, except for “Marlowe, the Papacy, and Doctor Faustus.”

The Coventry Mysteries And Shakespeare’S Histories, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Gesture In Medieval Drama And Art, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Includes essay “Gesture in Medieval English Drama.”

Material Culture And Medieval Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The contributions by distinguished American and British scholars to this volume recognize that early drama depended on specific developments in material culture in order to achieve its effects, which included both visual and auditory means of appealing to audiences. The discussions range from the parchment and paper on which the plays were written to the instruments which enhanced their production. Of special interest is Mary Remnant’s survey of musical instruments available to producers; she is the recognized expert on medieval English instruments.

The Worlde And The Chylde, Clifford Davidson, Peter Happé

Clifford Davidson

The Worlde and the Chylde, issued by the press of Wynkyn de Worde in 1521, is one of the very earliest plays published in England. It also has very considerable interest for its adaptation of the Ages of Man iconography, which is extensively treated in the introduction, notes, and illustrations.

Performing Medieval Music Drama, Clifford Davidson, Audrey Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract provided.

Technology, Guilds, And Early English Drama, Edam Monograph Series 23, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

This book is designed to open up a broader scope of study which calls attention to both social organization and material culture as integrally related to the civic drama of England in cities such as Coventry, York and Chester.

Fools And Folly, Edam Monograph Series 22, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The Fool in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period was either a person who capitalized on his natural deficiencies, which were then considered amusing, or a professional entertainer the artificial Fool who specialized in clowning. His distinctive clothing and bauble are known to us through numerous Psalter illustrations where he is shown in connection with Psalm 52, which asserts that The fool has said in his heart there is no God. Attitudes toward the Fool varied, but his place was to become assured on stage, where his role is best known to us through the plays of Shakespeare. The …

Emblem, Iconography, And Drama, Clifford Davidson, John Stroupe, Luis Emblem, Iconography, And Drama

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. of Comparative Drama, 29, No. 1 (Spring 1995).

The Iconography Of Heaven, Edam Monograph Series 21, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Includes the following contributions: “Saints and Angels” (pp. 1-39), “Heaven’s Fragrance” (pp. 110-27), and (with J. T. Rhodes) “The Garden of Paradise” (pp. 69-109).

Early And Traditional Drama: Africa, Asia, And The New World, Clifford Davidson, John Stroupe

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. of Comparative Drama, 28, No. 1 (Spring 1994).

Medieval Drama On The Continent Of Europe, Clifford Davidson, John Stroupe

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. of Comparative Drama, 27, No. 1 (Spring 1993)

Drama And The Classical Heritage: Comparative And Critical Essays, Clifford Davidson, John Stroupe, Rand Johnson

Clifford Davidson

Articles reprinted from Comparative Drama.

The Iconography Of Hell, Edam Monograph Series 17, Clifford Davidson, Thomas Seiler

Clifford Davidson

Contributions include essay, “The Fate of the Damned” (pp. 41-56.)

On Tradition: Essays On The Use And Valuation Of The Past, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Contains previously published articles in revised or abbreviated form: “The Sociology of Visual Forms, Tradition, and the Late Medieval Theater,” “What hempen homespuns have we swagg’ring here?” “Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair, Stage Plays, and Anti-Traditionalism,” “George Herbert and Painted Glass Windows,” and “T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral: Reviving the Saint Play Tradition.”

Drama In The Middle Ages: Second Series, Clifford Davidson, John Stroupe

Clifford Davidson

Papers chosen from previously published articles in Comparative Drama

Illustrations Of The Stage And Acting In England To 1580, Edam Monograph Series 16, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

This richly illustrated book surveys representations of the stage and acting from manuscript illuminations, stained glass, sculpture, woodcarving, wall paintings and the woodcuts that appear in playbooks produced by the first English printers.

Iconographic And Comparative Studies In Medieval Drama, Clifford Davidson, John Stroupe

Clifford Davidson

When Actors Play God, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Medieval Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Visualizing The Moral Life: A Study Of The Iconography Of The Macro Morality Plays, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract provided.

Iconoclasm Vs. Art And Drama, Edam Monograph Series 11, Clifford Davidson, Ann Nichols

Clifford Davidson

The radical Protestantism that led to the suppression of the religious drama also had destroyed perhaps the majority of ecclesiastical art in England by the early years of Queen Elizabeth I. Contributions include essay on “The Anti-Visual Prejudice” (pp. 33-46) and “‘The Devil’s Guts’: Allegations of Superstition and Fraud in Drama and Art during the Reformation” (pp. 92-144)

The Contribution Of W. L. Hildburgh, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson