Staging, playing, pyrotechnics and magic : conventions of performance in early English theatre : shifting paradigms in early English drama studies / Philip Butterworth ; edited by Peter Harrop.
"In this selection of research articles Butterworth focuses on investigation of the practical and technical means by which early English theatre, from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, was performed. Matters of staging for both 'pageant vehicle' and 'theatre-in-the-...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2022.
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Table of Contents:
- The York Mercers pageant vehicle, 1433-1467 : wheels, steering, and control
- Hugh Platte's collapsible wagon
- Pageant carriage maintenance at Chester
- Jetties, pentices, purprestures and ordure : obstacles to pageants and processions in London
- The work of William Parnell, supplier of staging and ingenious devices, and his role in the visit of Elizabeth Woodville to Norwich in 1469 / with Michael Spence
- The York crucifixion : actor/audience relationship
- Jean Fouquets The martyrdom of St Apollonia and the rape of the Sabine women as iconographical evidence of medieval theatre practice
- Richard Carews ordinary : the first English director in the narrator, the expositor, and the prompter in European medieval theatre
- Prompting in full view of the audience : the Groningen experiment
- Hellfire : flame as special effect
- The light of heaven : flame as special effect
- The providers of pyrotechnics in plays and celebrations
- Juggling and staging tricks in early theatre
- Brandon, feats and Hocus Pocus : jugglers three
- Hocus Pocus Junior : further confirmation of its author
- Is there any further value to be gained from re-staging medieval theatre?