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IMPROVISATION IN THE ARTS OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE
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One impression that stands out from this collection is the extent to which improvisation was an important factor in all of the arts. As each of the authors assembles a case by ferreting out bits and pieces of information having to do with a single art, the weight of the assembled material lends additional strength to each case. By considering the overall picture that results, as well as that made by each of the individual studies, the reader is able to see much more clearly the role played by improvisation from the late Middle Ages through to the time of Shakespeare and beyond. A careful reading of the essays brings with it the awareness that to ignore improvisation is to distort the art in a major way. In light of the present volume, the very concept of "faithful historical re-creation" takes on a much broader and more complex character.
EDAM Monograph 30, Copyright 2003, pp. xii + 331
ISBN 1-58044-044-4 (casebound) $30.00
ISBN 1-58044-045-2 (paperbound) $15.00
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PAYING THE PIPER
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In Paying the Piper, Elizabeth Baldwin studies the early music situation in a single county, Cheshire, from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the Civil War, focusing on music outside the regular control of the Church and looking not only at the trained professional but at music-makers from the performers at guild feasts to the gentleman who takes music lessons and the alehousekeeper who plays the pipes. Baldwin attempts to set the performer of music in a social, economic, legal, and possibly political context. Who was performing music, where, when, and why? What instruments were played, and by whom? What attitudes were there towards music, and how did they vary according to circumstances and religious affiliation? Did Cheshire's special status with respect to the Statute of Vagabonds really make any difference to the performers in the county?
EDAM Monograph 29, Copyright 2002, pp. xii + 287
ISBN 1-58044-040-1 (casebound) $30.00
ISBN 1-58044-041-X (paperbound) $15.00
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GESTURE IN MEDIEVAL DRAMA AND ART
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Gesture and movement on stage in early drama have previously received very little attention in scholarship. The present collection of essays is the first book to present sensible, penetrating, and wide-ranging discussions of the gestural effects that were integral to the early stage. In addition to consideration of the influence of classical rhetoric and reference to medieval texts and documents, the essays carefully bring to bear evidence from the art of the period and hence will be of great importance for those interested in the visual arts as well as the theater; eschewing both the naive methodologies promoted in past criticism and ephemeral theoretical concerns, the book is truly ground-breaking. These essays will need to be perused by every serious theater historian or student of art concerned with the late Middle Ages.
EDAM Monograph 28, Copyright 2001, pp. xii + 239
ISBN 1-58044-028-2 (casebound) $30.00
ISBN 1-58044-029-0 (paperbound) $15.00
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THE COVENTRY CORPUS CHRISTI PLAYS
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One of the greatest medieval drama cycles in England was mounted annually at Coventry at Corpus Christi until suppressed in 1579, and is of particular importance because it was almost certainly seen by William Shakespeare when he was a boy in nearby Stratford-upon-Avon. The two extant pageants from this cycle have been re-edited and are presented here for the first time in a modern critical edition. The introduction provides a full survey of knowledge about the Coventry cycle from the local dramatic records and other sources of information. Comprehensive critical and textual notes are included as well as a Select Bibliography and Glossary. Appendices print the earliest fragments of the Weavers' pageant, texts of royal entries from the Coventry Leet Book, the songs (including the famous Coventry Carol) from the Shearmen and Taylors' pageant, and an analysis of various versions of the Doctors play.
EDAM Monograph 27, Copyright 2000, pp. xii + 326
ISBN 1-58044-055-X (casebound) $35.00
ISBN 1-58044-056-8 (paperbound) $15.00
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THE WORLDE AND THE CHYLDE
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The Worlde and the Chylde, issued by the press of Wynkyn de Worde in 1521, is one of the very earliest plays published in England. It also has very considerable interest for its adaptation of the Ages of Man iconography, which is extensively treated in the introduction, notes, and illustrations. Additionally, the play is a unique example of a drama designed for performance by two actors in a household setting, and has substantial value as a theater piece, as twentieth-century revivals have indicated. The present book contains the first modern scholarly edition of a play that deserves to be widely known among students of the late medieval morality drama.
EDAM Monograph 26, Copyright 1999, pp. x + 130
ISBN 1-58044-051-7 (casebound) $30.00
ISBN 1-58044-052-5 (paperbound) $15.00
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MATERIAL CULTURE AND MEDIEVAL DRAMA
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Like the editor's Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama, the contributions by distinguished American and British scholars to this volume recognize that early drama depended on specific developments in material culture in order to achieve its effects, which included both visual and auditory means of appealing to audiences. The discussions range from the parchment and paper on which the plays were written to the instruments which enhanced their production. Of special interest is Mary Remnant's survey of musical instruments available to producers; she is the recognized expert on medieval English instruments.
EDAM Monograph 25, Copyright 1999, pp. xvi + 244
ISBN 1-58044-020-7 (casebound) $35.00
ISBN 1-58044-021-5 (paperbound) $15.00
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THE PLAY OF DANIEL: Critical Essays
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The Play of Daniel from Beauvais was the first medieval music-drama to be staged in a popular modern production by the legendary Noah Greenberg's New York Pro Musica. This book, for the first time, provides a critical introduction to the staging and production, music, and setting of the play in its architectural and historical context. It also reproduces the pages in the manuscript which contain the play in facsimile, and it provides a new and faithful transcription of the music as well as a fresh translation of the text by A. Marcel J. Zijlstra of the Schola Cantorum "Quem Quaeritis" of the Netherlands, a group which performs regularly at the Utrecht Festival.
EDAM Monograph 24, Copyright 1997, pp. iv + 159
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TECHNOLOGY, GUILDS,
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Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama is designed to open up a broader scope of study which calls attention to both social organization and material culture as integrally related to the civic drama of England in cities such as Coventry, York, and Chester. It addresses many questions that have been frequently asked about the sources and design of those things which were used in the production of plays. The book will serve as a model for future interdisciplinary research based on records, archaeological finds, evidence from the visual arts, and the playtexts themselves. Illustrated with more than a hundred photographs and drawings.
EDAM Monograph 23, Copyright 1997, pp. x + 128
ISBN 1-879288-79-6 (casebound) $35.00
ISBN 1-879288-80-X (paperbound) $15.00
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FOOLS AND FOLLY
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The Fool in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period was either a person who capitalized on his natural deficiencies, which were then considered amusing, or a professional entertainer—the artificial Fool—who specialized in clowning. His distinctive clothing and bauble are known to us through numerous Psalter illustrations where he is shown in connection with Psalm 52, which asserts that "The fool has said in his heart there is no God." Attitudes toward the Fool varied, but his place was to become assured on stage, where his role is best known to us through the plays of Shakespeare. The articles in the present volume provide indispensable analyses of the Fool from a number of different perspectives.
EDAM Monograph 22, Copyright 1996, pp. vi + 188
ISBN 1-879288-69-9 (casebound) $35.00
ISBN 1-879288-70-2 (paperbound) $15.00
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THE ICONOGRAPHY OF HEAVEN
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In contrast to hell, which was imagined to be dark, dirty, and painful in the extreme, Heaven was visualized in both art and drama as a place of light and joy, an idealized paradise resounding with celestial music. The essays in the present book examine various aspects of the iconography of Heaven as it was understood by medieval writers and artists. The volume is a companion to The Iconography of Hell, edited by Clifford Davidson and Thomas H. Seiler, and represents an indispensable collection that belongs not only in every college and university library but also on the shelves of all serious scholars with an interest in the subject.
EDAM Monograph 21, Copyright 1994, pp. xii + 234
ISBN 1-879288-48-6 (casebound) $30.00
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EARLY DRAMA, ART, AND MUSIC DOCUMENTS:
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A practical guide to late medieval and Renaissance paleography complete with facsimiles of documents, transcriptions, and translations. This present volume will be of the greatest value to students and scholars who wish to consult original documents.
EDAM Monograph 20, Copyright 1993, pp. vi + 135
ISBN 1-879288-33-8 (casebound) $35.00
ISBN 1-879288-34-6 (paperbound) $17.00
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A TRETISE OF MIRACLIS PLEYINGE
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The Introduction surveys critical commentary on drama and the stage and places the Tretise in context. There is a thorough examination of dramatic criticism in England prior to the Renaissance, and the text of the most extended writing on the subject is presented in an accessible edition and in facsimile. An essay on the dialect of the Tretise by Paul A. Johnston, Jr., is an important methodological document that definitively identifies the Tretise as the work of two authors who lived in adjacent counties in the Midlands.
"Davidson's expert updating of this essential drama text, reflecting more than a decade of important scholarship on art, drama, Lollardy, and dialect studies, has given us a worthy continuation of the series with which he has been centrally involved."—from Studies in the Age of Chaucer 17 (1995)
EDAM Monograph 19, Copyright 1993, pp. viii + 200
ISBN 1-879288-31-1 (casebound only) $36.00
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THE ORDO VIRTUTUM OF
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The first collection of essays on Hildegard's wonderfully unique Ordo Virtutum, along with a reduced facsimile of the pages in Wiesbaden MS.2 that contain the drama.
"This short collection of essays is a welcome addition to studies about Hildegard of Bingen. In the editor's terms, a 'prismatic criticism addressing various facets' of Hildegard's composition, the collection incorporates several different perspectives on the performance, setting, and meaning of the most enigmatic and spiritual of liturgical (or quasi-liturgical) plays, the Ordo Virtutum."—from Speculum 69/3 (July 1994)
EDAM Monograph 18, Copyright 1992, pp. xii + 140
ISBN 1-879288-17-6 (casebound only) $25.00
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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE STAGE
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This richly illustrated book surveys representations of the stage and acting from manuscript illuminations, stained glass, sculpture, woodcarving, wall paintings, and the woodcuts that appear in playbooks produced by the first English printers.
"Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580, can only be characterized as a public service. A volume with 166 illustrations of early English stage practices conjoined with an intelligent explicative text is a rare achievement."—from Speculum 69/1 (January 1994)
EDAM Monograph 16, Copyright 1991, pp. xviii + 176
ISBN 0-918720-47-8 (casebound) $40.00
ISBN 0-918720-48-6 (paperbound) $20.00
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CROSSING THE BOUNDARIES:
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"What Crossing the Boundaries does is to give students of late Medieval and Renaissance culture—both the novice and specialist alike—valuable new information on the processes of formal development, the nature of social and religious meaning, and the material quality and function of lauds, penitential processions, paintings, and music of confraternal culture."—from Rivisti di Studi Italiani 12/1 (June 1994)
EDAM Monograph 15, Copyright 1991, pp. x + 308
ISBN 0-918720-45-1 (casebound only) $27.00
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STUDIES IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY STAGECRAFT
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Professor Robinson was known before his death as a major voice in medieval drama studies. His book will be a work that no scholar in the field will be able to ignore.
". . . this book will be a valuable asset to those who are attempting
to investigate the possibilities of acting style as well as staging
devices in medieval drama."—from Choice (December 1991)
". . . a wonderful book, lively and provocative, with lots to quarrel about and much more to admire."—from Speculum (July 1993)
EDAM Monograph 14, Copyright 1991, pp. xiv + 262
ISBN 0-918720-38-9 (casebound) $27.00
ISBN 0-918720-39-7 (paperbound) $17.00
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HOLY WEEK AND EASTER CEREMONIES
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Texts, translations, musical transcriptions, facsimiles of the Swedish music-dramas for Holy Week and Easter-Depositio, Elevatio, and Visitatio Sepulchri.
"Audrey Ekdahl Davidson's edition of the entire known corpus of Swedish Holy Week ceremonial drama is a work to be welcomed by Brigittine scholars, liturgists, musicians, and students of drama, in short, a classic example of the best work published in the Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series."—from Speculum (April 1993)
EDAM Monograph 13, Copyright 1990, pp. viii + 176
ISBN 0-918720-36-2 (casebound) $23.00
ISBN 0-918720-37-0 (paperbound) $13.00
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SHAKESPEARE'S PLAY WITHIN PLAY:
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". . . undoubtedly a fascinating collection of essays, a most salutary and detailed reminder of the great weight of medieval dramatic and narrative imagery which Shakespeare would unavoidably have been familiar with and which came naturally to hand as he set about constructing his new-fashioned plays."—from Parergon (December 1991)
EDAM Monograph 12, Copyright 1990, pp. xii + 159
ISBN 0-918720-34-6 (casebound) $23.00
ISBN 0-918720-35-4 (paperbound) $13.00
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ICONOCLASM VS. ART AND DRAMA
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The radical Protestantism that led to the suppression of the religious drama also had destroyed perhaps the majority of ecclesiastical art in England by the early years of Queen Elizabeth I. The essays in this book provide analysis of the intellectual and religious motivation as well as new historical information concerning this phase of iconoclasm.
EDAM Monograph 11, Copyright 1988, pp. xxvi + 234
ISBN 0-918720-97-4 (casebound) $28.00
ISBN 0-918720-98-2 (paperbound) $18.00
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THE MONOPHONIC LAUDA AND THE LAY RELIGIOUS CONFRATERNITIES OF
TUSCANY AND UMBRIA IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
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"This short book is an excellent introduction to a large and complex subject. . . . [It] deftly and succinctly synthesizes literary, archival, historical, and musicological material."—from Speculum (July 1991)
". . . surely must be seen as an especially valuable contribution to the advancement of our knowledge of this important yet elusive musical genre, and one which provides essential reading for newcomers to the subject."—from Early Music (November 1990)
EDAM Monograph 10, Copyright 1988, pp. xviii + 230
ISBN 0-918720-89-3 (casebound) $26.00
ISBN 0-918720-90-7 (paperbound) $16.00
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THE IDEA OF MUSIC: An Introduction to Musical
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"Professor Schueller, a distinguished philosopher with a strong interest in music, has now provided a guide much more wide-ranging than anything hitherto accessible to English-speaking readers, and the publication of this volume is a timely addition to the literature on the aesthetics of music."—from Music and Letters 71/2 (May 1990)
"Herbert Schueller's new history of music is highly sensitive to the changes in meaning which the concept of music has undergone and to the profound influence of philosophical thought on these changes."—from Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (1989)
EDAM Monograph 9, Copyright 1988, pp. xiv + 515
ISBN 0-918720-87-7 (casebound) $40.00
ISBN 0-918720-88-5 (paperbound) $20.00
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THE SAINT PLAY IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
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". . . is likely to be regarded as a standard work of early drama scholarship."—from Comparative Drama (Fall 1987)
". . . will become a standard reference work alongside E. K. Chambers' Medieval Stage, . . . Karl Young's The Drama of the Medieval Church, . . . and Glynne Wickham's Early English Stages, 1300-1600. . . ."—from Choice (April 1987)
EDAM Monograph 8, Copyright 1986, pp. x + 286
ISBN 0-918720-77-X (casebound only) $26.00
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THE FLEURY PLAYBOOK: Essays and Studies
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"This collection of interdisciplinary essays . . . is . . . a welcome addition to the field, and editors Campbell and Davidson are to be applauded for their publication, which, one hopes, will set a trend."—from Speculum (January 1988)
". . . welcome evidence of the continuing scholarly attention being given to the early Latin ecclesiastical drama."—from Notes & Queries (March 1989)
EDAM Monograph 7, Copyright 1985, pp. xx + 212
ISBN 0-918720-65-6 (casebound) $20.00
IBSN 0-918720-66-4 (paperbound) $11.00
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HOMO, MEMENTO FINIS: The Iconography
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The medieval cycle plays from such cities as York and Chester culminated in a drama about the end of time, the Last Judgment. David Bevington and the other contributors to this book look at this final event of history as depicted in pre-modern times, and the result is a work of scholarly precision that, according to Professor Bevington's introduction, "attempts to see medieval drama in the context of other medieval art forms."
". . . these essays are of a piece-consistently sound, intelligently researched, carefully complementary. The volume will serve as a reliable and informative source for years to come. . . ."—from Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England (1989)
EDAM Monograph 6, Copyright 1985, pp. xii + 245
ISBN 0-918720-60-5 (casebound only) $23.00
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WORD, PICTURE, AND SPECTACLE
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Each of these diverse essays confronts important issues in the study of medieval art, literature, and drama. The topics covered include the symbolism of scatological illustration in Gothic manuscripts (Karl Wentersdorf), connections between word and picture in religious art (Roger Ellis), and the relationship perceived between divine and human creativity (R. W. Hanning), while Clifford Davidson provides an exploration in the phenomenology of space and time in medieval theater.
EDAM Monograph 5, Copyright 1984, pp. x + 187
ISBN 0-918720-51-6 (casebound) $18.00
ISBN 0-918720-50-5 (paperbound) $11.00
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THE STAGING OF RELIGIOUS DRAMA
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"This book is a treasure for anyone studying, teaching, or producing medieval drama."—from Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England (1986)
"The editors deserve much credit for bringing together for the first time so rich a collection of materials on the staging of medieval plays."—from Speculum (October 1985)
EDAM Monograph 4, Copyright 1983, pp. x + 301
ISBN 0-918720-23-0 (casebound only) $25.00
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