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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.


Performing Medieval Music Drama, Clifford Davidson, Audrey Davidson Dec 1997

Performing Medieval Music Drama, Clifford Davidson, Audrey 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 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.


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.


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.


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).


Idol And Image In Late Medieval Art And Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1994

Idol And Image In Late Medieval Art And Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Towneley Plays, Clifford Davidson Dec 1993

The Towneley Plays, 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.


The Iconography Of Heaven, Edam Monograph Series 21, Clifford Davidson Dec 1993

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 Dec 1993

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).


Mysterienspiele, Clifford Davidson, Lynette Muir, Stephen Spector Dec 1993

Mysterienspiele, Clifford Davidson, Lynette Muir, Stephen Spector

Clifford Davidson

The Theologische Realenzyklopädie treats the whole range of ecclesiastical and theological subjects from an ecumenical and international perspective; it deals with faith and thought, theology and church, acknowledgement and, if possible, understanding, beyond the boundaries of Christianity. 


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.


Stage Properties And Iconography In Early English Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1992

Stage Properties And Iconography In Early English Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


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.”


Hildegard Of Bingen’S Ordo Virtutum: A Note On Production, Clifford Davidson Dec 1991

Hildegard Of Bingen’S Ordo Virtutum: A Note On Production, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The first collection of essays on Hildegard’s wonderfully unique Ordo Virtutum, along with a reduced facsimile of the pages in Wiesbaden MS.2 that contain the drama.


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.