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VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES
Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts
Pamela M. King
Edited by Alexandra F. Johnston
Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts
Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
First published 2021
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Names: King, Pamela M, author. | Johnston, Alexandra F., 1939- editor.
Title: Reading texts for performance and performance as texts: shifting paradigms in early English drama studies/Pamela M. King; edited by Alexandra F. Johnston.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Variorum collected studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020028746 (print) | LCCN 2020028747 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367441180 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003007739 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: English dramaTo 1500History and criticism. | TheaterEngland
HistoryMedieval, 500-1500. | Mysteries and miracle-plays, EnglishHistory and
criticism. | Christian drama, English (Middle)History and criticism. | Spanish drama
To 1500History and criticism. | TheaterSpainHistoryMedieval, 500-1500.
Classification: LCC PR641 .K495 2021 (print) | LCC PR641 (ebook) |
DDC 822/.109dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020028746
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020028747
ISBN: 978-0-367-44118-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-00773-9 (ebk)
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by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India
VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES CS1096
Contents
General view of Santa Maria, Elche, showing housing for winding gear
Roof terrace, angels dressing rooms and scenery storage
Mangrana descending and opening
Mangrana descends to Virgin
Araceli ascends with the image
The Coronation of the Virgin
Jews and Apostles fight
Araceli descends with the soul
Trinity prepares to descend
Heaven manipulating the mangrana
Festa funeral of the Virgin
Erecting the railings around the tomb after the vespra
Effigy being taken from araceli after the Assumption
Manipulating the ropes for araceli and Trinity, fan ducting for gold flakes
Vespra Virgin and attendants progressing past the chapels on the andora
Dressing room, San Sebastian, Elche
Operating the winches on the roof terrace
Funeral procession of the Virgin, Festa morning
Cant leads the procession
The Virgin rescued from the sea
Heralds of the Venida
Palms at the Romera
Christ of the resurrection
Virgen dElx and aleluyas
The roca of Faith. This and all images in the chapter by the author, Corpus Christi, Valencia, 1994
The roca of Fame
A wheeled dragon
Giants
Dancing dwarf
Hobby horse dance
Vice and Virtue
Wild men dancing
Maypole dance
The host in the pomegranate
St Michael leads the procession with one black and one white soul
The spies with grapes from the Promised Land
Jonah and his whale
The play of Herod and the Magi
St Margarets Tortoise, St Marthas Tarasc
The Mule and the Angel Idiot
The Host
Audience throwing rose petals
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
The floral Host
Siena. Piazza del Mercato with the racecourse set up
Occupational banners, pre-race procession
Brucos victory procession
Horizontal arrangement of cadafalc
Horizontal arrangement of cadafalc
Vertical arrangement
Concealed exchange of live Virgin and image
View of the front axle and shafts of the waggon of the Immaculate Conception, first constructed in 1542. The yoke for the horses is laid across the front shafts when parked, and the draught pole is raised
Side-on view of front shafts and axle. Nb. head of centre pole in recess between axle bed and bolster