Research Catalog

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Description

1. xx, 290 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

1. "This book revives what was unique, strange, and exciting about the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes. Laura Weigert brings together a wealth of visual artifacts and practices to explore this tradition of late medieval performance taking place, not in 'theaters', but in churches, courts, and streets. By stressing the theatricality rather than the realism of fifteenth-century visual culture and the spectacular rather than the devotional nature of its effects, she offers a new way of thinking about late medieval representation and spectatorship. She shows how images that document medieval performance instead revise its characteristic features to conform to a play-going experience associated with classical antiquity. This retrospective vision of a late medieval performance tradition contributed to its demise in sixteenth-century France and promoted assumptions about medieval theater that continue to inform the contemporary disciplines of art and theater history"--

Subject

1. Art and society
2. Performing arts > Social aspects
3. Theater and society
4. France
5. Theater in art
6. To 1599
7. Art and society > France > History > 16th century
8. History
9. Performing arts > Social aspects > France > History > To 1500
10. Theater and society > France > History > To 1500
11. Performing arts > Social aspects > France > History > 16th century
12. Theater and society > France > History > 16th century
13. Art and society > France > History > To 1500

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Introduction: From Theatricality to Theater -- "Vocamus Personagias": The Figures of Ephemeral Stagings -- "Ouvrez vos yeux et regardez": Illuminated Passion Plays and the Commemoration of Performance -- "Faire Semblant": Make Believe and the Experience of Heroic Battles -- "Cy s'ensuit le Mystère": Creating a Spectator and a Reader of Plays -- "C'était qu'un jeu industrieux": Artifice and Authenticity in the Devil's Play -- Conclusion: Mysterious Ends 1548-1577.

Call number

1. JQF 16-248

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-278) and index.

Author

1. Weigert, Laura, author.

Title

1. French visual culture and the making of medieval theater / Laura Weigert.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2015]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-278) and index.

Connect to:

1. Cover image

Chronological term

1. To 1599

LCCN

1. 2015018958

ISBN

1. 9781107040472 hardcover
2. 1107040477 hardcover

Research call number

1. JQF 16-248