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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.


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 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.


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.


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.


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 …


The Coventry Mysteries And Shakespeare’S Histories, Clifford Davidson Dec 2003

The Coventry Mysteries And Shakespeare’S Histories, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


History, Religion, And Violence: Cultural Contexts For Medieval And Renaissance Drama, Variorum Series, Clifford Davidson Dec 2001

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.”


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 Sarah Beckwith, Signifying God: Social Relations And Symbolic Act In The York Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson Dec 2001

Rev. Of Sarah Beckwith, Signifying God: Social Relations And Symbolic Act In The York Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Gesture In Medieval Drama And Art, Clifford Davidson Dec 2000

Gesture In Medieval Drama And Art, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Includes essay “Gesture in Medieval English Drama.”


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 …


The Anxiety Of Power And Shakespeare’S Macbeth, Clifford Davidson Dec 1999

The Anxiety Of Power And Shakespeare’S Macbeth, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in History, Religion, and Violence, pp. 42-63.


Baptism, The Three Enemies, And T. S. Eliot, Clifford Davidson Dec 1998

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

Clifford Davidson

No abstract provided.


Some Observations On Violence In Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1997

Some Observations On Violence In Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


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.


Thomas Cranmer And The Vision Of Historical Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1995

Thomas Cranmer And The Vision Of Historical Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in Selected Studies, 134–53.


The Medieval Actor And The Antitheatrical Prejudice, Clifford Davidson Jul 1995

The Medieval Actor And The Antitheatrical Prejudice, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


King Lear And The Crisis Of Belief, Clifford Davidson Dec 1993

King Lear And The Crisis Of Belief, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Rev. Of Peter Thomson, Shakespeare’S Professional Career, And Gamini Salgado, The Elizabethan Underworld, Clifford Davidson Dec 1993

Rev. Of Peter Thomson, Shakespeare’S Professional Career, And Gamini Salgado, The Elizabethan Underworld, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Medieval Drama On The Continent Of Europe, Clifford Davidson, John Stroupe Dec 1992

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 Dec 1992

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 Dec 1991

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 Dec 1991

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 Dec 1990

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 Dec 1990

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 Dec 1990

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

Clifford Davidson

Contributions include essay, “Positional Symbolism and Medieval English Drama” (pp. 66-76). Rpt. of Comparative Drama, 25, No. 1: Proceedings of the Lancaster Colloquium on Medieval Theater.


Rev. Of David Freedberg, The Power Of Images, Clifford Davidson Dec 1990

Rev. Of David Freedberg, The Power Of Images, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


When Actors Play God, Clifford Davidson Dec 1989

When Actors Play God, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.