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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.


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 …


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.”


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.


Visualizing The Moral Life: A Study Of The Iconography Of The Macro Morality Plays, Clifford Davidson Dec 1988

Visualizing The Moral Life: A Study Of The Iconography Of The Macro Morality Plays, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract provided.


The Guild Chapel Wall Paintings At Stratford-Upon-Avon, Clifford Davidson Dec 1987

The Guild Chapel Wall Paintings At Stratford-Upon-Avon, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract provided.


Staging Two Early Hungarian Music-Dramas, Clifford Davidson, Audrey Davidson Dec 1985

Staging Two Early Hungarian Music-Dramas, Clifford Davidson, Audrey Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Word, Picture, And Spectacle, Edam Monograph Series 5, Clifford Davidson Dec 1983

Word, Picture, And Spectacle, Edam Monograph Series 5, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The topics covered include the symbolism of scatological illustration in Gothic manuscripts, connections between word and picture in religious art, and the relationship perceived between divine and human creativity.


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.”


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.


The Concept Of Purpose And Early Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1979

The Concept Of Purpose And Early Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Interdisciplinary Drama Research At Western Michigan University, Clifford Davidson Dec 1979

Interdisciplinary Drama Research At Western Michigan University, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Devotional Impulse And Drama At York, Clifford Davidson Mar 1979

The Devotional Impulse And Drama At York, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


On The Uses Of Iconographic Study: The Example Of The Sponsus From St. Martial Of Limoges, Clifford Davidson Dec 1978

On The Uses Of Iconographic Study: The Example Of The Sponsus From St. Martial Of Limoges, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in Drama in the Middle Ages.


York Art: A Subject List Of Extant And Lost Art Including Items Relevant To Early Drama, Clifford Davidson, David O'Connor Dec 1977

York Art: A Subject List Of Extant And Lost Art Including Items Relevant To Early Drama, Clifford Davidson, David O'Connor

Clifford Davidson

No abstract provided.


Drama And Art: An Introduction To The Use Of Evidence From The Visual Arts For The Study Of Early Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1976

Drama And Art: An Introduction To The Use Of Evidence From The Visual Arts For The Study Of Early Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Handbook prepared for Early Drama, Art, and Music Project


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.


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.


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 …