Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance

by Sharon Aronson-Lehavi

Book Overview

Street Scenes offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The performance theory perspective employed here, along with the examination of actor/character dialectics, paves the way to understanding both religious theatre and the complexity of late medieval theatricalities. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi demonstrates the existence of a late medieval discourse about the double...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349373990
• ISBN13: 9781349373994
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"