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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.

Baptism, The Three Enemies, And T. S. Eliot, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

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Zoo, Darrell Jones, Fiona Millward

Darrell Jones

Collaboration with Fiona Millward. Venue: Jacksonʼs Lane, UK

Ersatz Comedy In The Third Reich, William Grange

William Grange

JOSEPH GOEBBELS and ALFRED ROSENBERG identified Jewish playwrights, especially those who wrote comedy, as “agents of the threatening anti-Western invasion. . . . With the help of nigger Americanism, Jews from the East brought hither by the Mongolian sources of Bolshevism” had polluted an ethnically pure German theatre. Goebbels attacked plays by Franz Arnold (1878-1960), Rudolf Bernauer (1880-1953) Julius Berstl (1893-1975) Bruno Frank (1887-1945), Carl Zuckmayer (1898-1977) and others of deploying “hyper-modern, bolshevistic, mollusk-like and neurasthenic aesthetics” on German audiences. Purging the German theatre of comic plays by Jews and other creators of “abusive and undesirable literature,” Goebbels, Rosenberg, and …

Fear Of Flying, Darrell Jones

Darrell Jones

Solo, accompanied by the music of Jimi Hendrix, explores blues music and masculinity. Venue: DAAD (Dancers of African Descent Downtown), Judson Memorial Church, New York City

The Sacrifice Of Isaac In Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

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

Clifford Davidson