Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance

Street Scenes offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The performance theory perspective employed here, along with the examination of actor/character dialectics, paves the way to understanding both religious theatre and the complexity of late medieval theatricalities. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi demonstrates the existence of a late medieval discourse about the double appeal of theatre performance: an artistic medium enacting sacred history while simultaneously referring to the present lives of its creators and spectators.

Author: S. Aronson-Lehavi
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/01/2011
Pages: 183
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780230606654

About the Author
SHARON ARONSON-LEHAVI Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the Department of Comparative Literature at Bar Ilan University, Israel. She is a Fulbright grantee and recipient of a Dan David postdoctoral award.