دانلود کتاب The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre

The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre provides an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays.

After a general introduction there are chapters devoted to the York, Chester, Towneley (Wakefield) and N-Town cycles of biblical plays, together with an account of the less well-known Cornish drama of the period. Attention to the contribution of different regions is developed in a chapter on East Anglia, and continued in essays on the morality drama and the saints' plays. Two illustrated chapters are devoted to the performance of medieval plays, both in their own time and in recent modern revivals. A full reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an extensive classified bibliography and a chronological table.