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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.


The York Mysteries: Carnivalesque?, Clifford Davidson Aug 2007

The York Mysteries: Carnivalesque?, 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.”


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 …


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 Medieval Actor And The Antitheatrical Prejudice, Clifford Davidson Jul 1995

The Medieval Actor And The Antitheatrical Prejudice, 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 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


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.


Positional Symbolism And Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson Jun 1989

Positional Symbolism And Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Medieval Dramaturgy And Modern Drama, Clifford Davidson Nov 1987

Medieval Dramaturgy And Modern Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Toward A Sociology Of Visual Forms In The English Medieval Theater, Clifford Davidson Dec 1985

Toward A Sociology Of Visual Forms In The English Medieval Theater, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Middle English Saint Play, Clifford Davidson Apr 1984

The Middle English Saint Play, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


From Creation To Doom: The York Cycle Of Mystery Plays, Clifford Davidson Dec 1983

From Creation To Doom: The York Cycle Of Mystery Plays, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Includes previously published papers in revised or modified form: “After the Fall,” “Civic Patronage and the York Realist,” “Northern Spirituality and the Late Medieval Drama of York,” “From Tristia to Gaudium.”


Gesture In Medieval Drama, With Special Reference To The Middle English Doomsday Play, Clifford Davidson Apr 1983

Gesture In Medieval Drama, With Special Reference To The Middle English Doomsday Play, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Introduction, Clifford Davidson Dec 1981

Introduction, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract provided.


The Visual Arts And Drama, With Special Emphasis On The Lazarus Plays Of The Middle Ages, Clifford Davidson Dec 1980

The Visual Arts And Drama, With Special Emphasis On The Lazarus Plays Of The Middle Ages, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Iconography In The Lazarus Plays Of The Middle Ages, Clifford Davidson Dec 1976

Iconography In The Lazarus Plays Of The Middle Ages, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Northern Spirituality And The Late Medieval Drama Of York, Clifford Davidson Dec 1975

Northern Spirituality And The Late Medieval Drama Of York, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in revised form in On Tradition.


Northern Piety And The York Cycle, Clifford Davidson Dec 1974

Northern Piety And The York Cycle, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Staging The York Creation, Clifford Davidson, Nona Mason Dec 1974

Staging The York Creation, Clifford Davidson, Nona Mason

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Civic Concern And Iconography In The York Passion, Clifford Davidson Dec 1973

Civic Concern And Iconography In The York Passion, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Revision rpt. in From Creation to Doom.


New Directions In The Study Of Medieval Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1971

New Directions In The Study Of Medieval Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Digby Mary Magdalene And The Magdalene Cult Of The Middle Ages, Clifford Davidson Dec 1971

The Digby Mary Magdalene And The Magdalene Cult Of The Middle Ages, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Unity Of The Wakefield Mactacio Abel, Clifford Davidson Dec 1966

The Unity Of The Wakefield Mactacio Abel, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Despite the renewal of interest in the Catholic vernacular drama of medieval England, critics generally have failed to understand the framework upon which the unity of the Wakefield Mactacio Abel (The Killing of Abel) rests. If, as I believe, the central issue in the play is the response of mankind to God's grace against the background of the whole of history, then those who would admire the play solely for its realism or for its farce are not properly responding to the drama. There are many who perhaps do find the theology implicit in medieval drama to be rather …