Includes bibliographical references This collection of essays in English by scholars of international standing presents new insights into the contexts in which the fifteenth-century French mystères were created. It is centred upon the remarkable...
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Includes bibliographical references This collection of essays in English by scholars of international standing presents new insights into the contexts in which the fifteenth-century French mystères were created. It is centred upon the remarkable outburst of large-scale plays written for urban production and dealing with biblical and hagiological subjects which transformed the art of theatre in France and gave rise to a new and multi-faceted theatrical culture. Among the subjects treated are the means by which surviving texts preserve theatrical practice, and some of the ways in which the work of the principal dramatists Eustache
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Mystère, Farce, Moralité: A Reflection upon the Poetics of Drama in the Middle Ages, Based on Ms. BnF fr. 904, Passion de Semur (Fifteenth Century), and Some Other Burgundian Manuscripts; The Theatricality of Pre- and Post-Performance French Mystery Play Texts; Michel Adapts Gréban: Some Aspects of the Passion Sequence; Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 617: Mystères as Convent Drama; Illustrations; Figure 1: Distribution of copying hands in Ms. 617 by folio; Figure 2: Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 617, fols. 2v-3r
Figure 3: Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 617, fols. 6v-7r"Haro! Haro! Sus, dyablerie": The Theatricality of Devils in Temptation Sequences; Le Mystère de Saint Sébastien's Villain: "No Cuckoo is a Sparrowhawk"; La Pucelle and the Godons in the Mistère du Siège d'Orléans: Civic Pageant and Popular Tradition; Figure 4: Angers tapestry of the Apocalypse; "Laisser l'Istoire ...et Moralisier ung Petit": Aspects of Allegory in the Mystères; Figure 5: New Alliance medallion: thirteenth-century stained glass in the ambulatory, Bourges Cathedral
Figure 6: Le Procès de Paradis (Parliament in Heaven) Arras, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 697, fol. 2vTurning a Chanson de Geste into a Mystery, or Non-Religious and Chivalric Mystery Plays; Sermons in the Passions of Mercadé, Gréban and Jehan Michel; A Typology of Catalan Play Manuscripts from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century; Contributors;