A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval afterlives brings new insight to the ways in which peoples in the sixteenth century understood, manipulated and responded to the history of their performance spaces, stage technologies, characterisation and popular dramatic tropes. In doing so, this volume advocates for a new understanding of sixteenth-seventeenth century theatre makers as highly aware of the medieval traditions that formed their performance practices, and audiences who recognised and appreciated the recycling of these practices between plays. -- .
| ISBN: | 9781526172136 |
| Publication date: | 28th May 2024 |
| Author: | Daisy Lecturer in English Black |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Series: | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: plays and playwrights |