The Late Medieval Interlude by Fiona S Dunlop
Sensitive study of the 15/16 century interlude, focussing on one of its major concerns, the depiction of male aristocracy and the development to maturity. The commercial theatre of the late sixteenth century is often credited with introducing its audiences to new modes of thought about the self, society and the nation, making them conscious that the self is performed, as an actor performs a role. Yet the earlier interlude drama, originally performed in households and other institutions of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, indicates that the late medieval period was fully aware of the theatricalityof identity. This book argues that ideas of performance inform the concepts of aristocratic masculinity developed in the plays Nature, Fulgens and Lucres, The Worlde and the Chylde, The Interlude of Youth and Calisto and Melebea. It examines how the depiction of young male aristocrats in these texts is shaped by ideas of male youth constituted in the middle ages, and shows them as failing or succeeding to perform anadult noble masculinity in the aristocratic body and in aristocratic household. The book also suggests ways in which the plays offer discreet praise and censure of the manner in which their noble patrons performed as aristocrats.Throughout, it brings out the subtle qualities of the interludes, which, the author shows, have been unjustly neglected. Dr FIONA S. DUNLOP is Research Associate of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Tremendously useful* JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *
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| ISBN 13 | 9781903153215 |
| ISBN 10 | 1903153212 |
| Title | The Late Medieval Interlude |
| Author | Fiona S Dunlop |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | York Medieval Press |
| Year published | 2007-04-19 |
| Number of pages | 152 |
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