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Memory And Remembering: Sacred History And The York Plays, Clifford Davidson Apr 2014

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

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Bullying In York’S Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson, Sheila White Apr 2010

Bullying In York’S Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson, Sheila White

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.


The York Mysteries: Carnivalesque?, Clifford Davidson Aug 2007

The York Mysteries: Carnivalesque?, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


York Mysteries: Seeing And Listening, Clifford Davidson Jul 2007

York Mysteries: Seeing And Listening, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The York Corpus Christi Plays And Visual Piety, Clifford Davidson Dec 2006

The York Corpus Christi Plays And Visual Piety, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Reprinted in revised form in Corpus Christi Plays at York, 33–62.


Symbolic Engagement In Everyman, Clifford Davidson Dec 2006

Symbolic Engagement In Everyman, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


York Guilds And The Corpus Christi Plays: Unwilling Participants?, Clifford Davidson Dec 2005

York Guilds And The Corpus Christi Plays: Unwilling Participants?, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Maud Sellers, in 1912, introduced the notion that the York guilds which produced the civic Corpus Christi plays found them to be ‘an intolerable and vexatious burden.’ The idea has persisted. However, the picture of guild support for the plays is complex, especially during the period of economic and civic decline which in fact impoverished some guilds and left others with a membership deficit due to the inability to maintain their numbers. York, like other cities, was unable to maintain its population without immigration from outside since the death rate exceeded the birth rate. Pestilence and disease played a part …


Deliver Us From Evil: Essays On Symbolic Engagement In Early Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 2003

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 …


Improvisation In Medieval British Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 2002

Improvisation In Medieval British Drama, 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.


Suffering And The York Plays, Clifford Davidson Dec 2001

Suffering And The York Plays, 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.


Signs Of Doomsday In Drama And Art, Clifford Davidson Dec 1999

Signs Of Doomsday In Drama And Art, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson, Pamela King Dec 1999

The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson, Pamela King

Clifford Davidson

One of the greatest medieval drama cycles in England was mounted annually at Coventry at Corpus Christi until suppressed in 1579, and is of particular importance because it was almost certainly seen by William Shakespeare when he was a boy in nearby Stratford-upon-Avon. The two extant pageants from this cycle have been re-edited and are presented here for the first time in a modern critical edition. The introduction provides a full survey of knowledge about the Coventry cycle from the local dramatic records and other sources of information. Comprehensive critical and textual notes are included as well as a select …


Cain In The Mysteries: The Iconography Of Violence, Clifford Davidson Dec 1999

Cain In The Mysteries: The Iconography Of Violence, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Worlde And The Chylde, Clifford Davidson, Peter Happé Dec 1998

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.


British Saint Play Records: Coping With Ambiguity, Clifford Davidson, Lawrence Clopper, Elizabeth Baldwin Dec 1998

British Saint Play Records: Coping With Ambiguity, Clifford Davidson, Lawrence Clopper, Elizabeth Baldwin

Clifford Davidson

This review article surveys points of view on the existence and performance of saints plays in England and includes reviews of the most recent work on saints plays as presented in panels at the Leeds Medieval Conference, July 1999.


The Sacrifice Of Isaac In Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1998

The Sacrifice Of Isaac In Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in History, Religion, and Violence, pp. 124-48.


Nudity, The Body, And Early English Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1998

Nudity, The Body, And Early English Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in History, Religion, and Violence, pp. 149-79.


The Medieval Stage And The Anti-Theatrical Prejudice, Clifford Davidson Dec 1996

The Medieval Stage And The Anti-Theatrical Prejudice, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Carnival, Lent, And Early English Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1996

Carnival, Lent, And Early English Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Technology, Guilds, And Early English Drama, Edam Monograph Series 23, Clifford Davidson Dec 1996

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.


Civic Drama For Corpus Christi At Coventry: Some Lost Plays, Clifford Davidson Dec 1996

Civic Drama For Corpus Christi At Coventry: Some Lost Plays, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in History, Religion, and Violence, pp. 124-48.


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.


Fools And Folly, Edam Monograph Series 22, Clifford Davidson Dec 1995

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 …


Saints In Play: English Theater And Saints’ Lives, Clifford Davidson Dec 1995

Saints In Play: English Theater And Saints’ Lives, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Emblem, Iconography, And Drama, Clifford Davidson, John Stroupe, Luis Emblem, Iconography, And Drama Dec 1994

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

Clifford Davidson

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