The Civic Cycles : Artisan Drama and Identity in Premodern England
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| Title: | The Civic Cycles : Artisan Drama and Identity in Premodern England |
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| Description: | The civic religious drama of late medieval England—financed, produced, and performed by craftspeople—offers one of the earliest forms of written literature by a non-elite group in Europe. In this innovative study, Nicole R. Rice and Margaret Aziza Pappano trace an artisanal perspective on medieval and early modern civic relations, analyzing selected plays from the cities of York and Chester individually and from a comparative perspective, in dialogue with civic records. Positing a complex view of relations among merchants, established artisans, wage laborers, and women, the two authors show how artisans used the cycle plays to not only represent but also perform their interests, suggesting that the plays were the major means by which the artisans participated in civic polity. In addition to examining selected plays in the context of artisanal social and economic practices, Rice and Pappano also address relations between performance and historical transformation, considering how these plays, staged for nearly two centuries, responded to changes in historical conditions. In particular, they pay attention to how the pressures of Reformist governments influenced the meaning and performance of the civic religious drama in both towns. Ultimately, the authors provide a new perspective on how artisans can be viewed as social actors and agents in England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. |
| Authors: | Nicole R. Rice, Margaret Aziza Pappano |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Theater--England--York--History--Medieval, 500-1500, Theater--England--Chester--History--Medieval, 500-1500, Religious drama, English--History and criticism, English drama--To 1500--History and criticism, Literature and society--England--History--To 1500, Artisans--England--History--To 1500 |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, DRAMA / Type / Religious & Liturgical, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, DRAMA / Medieval |
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