Entertainment and ritual, 600 to 1600 / by Peter A. Bucknell ; with illustrations by the author.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Stainer and Bell, 1979.Description: 223 p. : ill., coats of arms, maps, plans ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0852494440
  • 9780852494448
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.0942 BUC
LOC classification:
  • PN2101 .B76
Contents:
1 In the Church: the mysteries -- 2 In the Church: play-making becomes ambitious -- 3 In the streets & the town square: commercial theatre -- 4 In the schools: instruction versus entertainment -- 5 In the home: courtly pleasures & pageantry -- 6 In the countryside: underground theatre, secret worship & dancing.
Summary: "The skills of the designer, the wide knowledge of the historian of drama and the practical experience of the director come together in this book, in which Peter Bucknell writes and draws the story of early dramatic presentation from the early Middle Ages to the Elizabethan theatre, tracing its origins in entertainment and ritual, sacred and secular. A book for all students of all ages.....and anyone with a love of the theatre." -- Book Jacket
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Books Books Academy of Music & Performing Arts Library General Stacks Non-fiction 792.0942 BUC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Kindly donated by J. Dyson A06438
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792.028 PIT Performance perspectives : 792.09 GEI Plays, players, & playwrights : 792.092 NOH Le Petomane, 1857-1945: 792.0942 BUC Entertainment and ritual, 600 to 1600 / 792.0942 MAC Theatregoer's London / 792.097471 ATK Broadway / 792.099441 BEC Set in stone :

Col. ill. on lining papers.

Includes index.

1 In the Church: the mysteries -- 2 In the Church: play-making becomes ambitious -- 3 In the streets & the town square: commercial theatre -- 4 In the schools: instruction versus entertainment -- 5 In the home: courtly pleasures & pageantry -- 6 In the countryside: underground theatre, secret worship & dancing.

"The skills of the designer, the wide knowledge of the historian of drama and the practical experience of the director come together in this book, in which Peter Bucknell writes and draws the story of early dramatic presentation from the early Middle Ages to the Elizabethan theatre, tracing its origins in entertainment and ritual, sacred and secular. A book for all students of all ages.....and anyone with a love of the theatre." -- Book Jacket

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