Memory, images, and the English Corpus Christi drama / Theodore K. Lerud
- Author
- Lerud, Theodore Karl, 1951-
- Published
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Series
- Contents
- Medieval culture and the memory arts -- The position of theater in the thought of Augustine of Hippo -- Medieval Aristotelianism and the poetics of the English Corpus Christi drama -- Thomas Aquinas and the rehabilitation of the image: a context for the development of medieval drama -- Drama as quick image: the fifteenth-century context -- Corpus Christi drama and the places of memory: liturgical precedents and illuminated manuscript analogues -- Plays, places, and the dramatic records -- A bird in the hand: shifting politics and processions at Chester -- Reinventing the cycle: the banns, the text, and the pentecostal design -- The missing link: spaces, places, and the Chester Whitsun plays.
- Subject(s)
- Mysteries and miracle-plays, English—History and criticism
- Christian drama, English (Middle)—History and criticism
- Bible plays, English—History and criticism
- Memory in literature
- Visual perception in literature
- Imagery (Psychology) in literature
- Christian art and symbolism in literature
- Art and literature—England—History—To 1500
- Theaters—Stage-setting and scenery—England
- ISBN
- 0230603211 (alk. paper)
9780230603219 (alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-176) and index.
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