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001 2015023728
003 DLC
005 20150709082249.0
008 150708s2015 inu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015023728
020 $a9780268039004 (paperback)
020 $a0268039003 (paperback)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aPR644.Y6$bR53 2015
082 00 $a822/.051609$223
084 $aHIS037010$aDRA003000$aPER011020$2bisacsh
100 1 $aRice, Nicole R.,$d1973-
245 14 $aThe civic cycles :$bartisan drama and identity in premodern England /$cNicole R. Rice & Margaret Aziza Pappano.
263 $a1509
264 1 $aNotre Dame, Indiana :$bUniversity of Notre Dame Press,$c2015.
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aNd reformations: medieval & early modern
520 $a"The civic religious drama of late medieval England--financed, produced, and performed by craftspeople--offers one of the earliest forms of written literature by a non-elite group in Europe. In this innovative study, Nicole R. Rice and Margaret Aziza Pappano trace an artisanal perspective on medieval and early modern civic relations, analyzing selected plays from the cities of York and Chester individually and from a comparative perspective, in dialogue with civic records. Positing a complex view of relations among merchants, established artisans, wage laborers, and women, the two authors show how artisans used the cycle plays to not only represent but also perform their interests, suggesting that the plays were the major means by which the artisans participated in civic polity. In addition to examining selected plays in the context of artisanal social and economic practices, Rice and Pappano also address relations between performance and historical transformation, considering how these plays, staged for nearly two centuries, responded to changes in historical conditions. In particular, they pay attention to how the pressures of Reformist governments influenced the meaning and performance of the civic religious drama in both towns. Ultimately, the authors provide a new perspective on how artisans can be viewed as social actors and agents in England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. "The Civic Cycles is an outstanding take on the urban dramas of medieval York and Chester, complementing previous historicist scholarship on these plays while expanding the political frame of reference. This volume is poised to become a major book in early English drama studies, a text that coordinates and assimilates all of the revisionary historicist work on the cycles from the previous two decades even as it takes that historicism to the next level of complexity." --Robert Barrett, Jr., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
630 00 $aYork plays.
630 00 $aChester plays.
650 0 $aEnglish drama$yTo 1500$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aArtisans$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aTheater$zEngland$zYork$xHistory$yMedieval, 500-1500.
650 0 $aTheater$zEngland$zChester$xHistory$yMedieval, 500-1500.
650 0 $aReligious drama, English$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Medieval.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aDRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aPappano, Margaret Aziza,$d1967-