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Author:   John A. Alford
Publisher:   Michigan State University Press
Imprint:   Michigan State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9780870137730

ISBN 10:   0870137735
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   01 January 1995
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

Contents Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Mass as Performance Text Dolan T. P. 2. From Mappa Mundi to Theatrum Mundi: The World as Stage in Early English Drama Stevens Martin 3. Asleep Onstage Bevington David 4. Acting Mary: The Emotional Realism of the Mature Virgin in the N-Town Plays Johnston Alexandra F. 5. The Performance of Some Wakefield Master Plays on the University of Illinois Campus Friedman John B. 6. The Problem with Mrs. Noah: The Search for Performance Credibility in the Chester Noah's Flood Play Marx William G. 7. The Theaters of Everyman Mills David 8. “My Name is Worship”: Masquerading Vice in Medwall's Nature Alford John A. 9. Plays, Players, and Playwrights in Renaissance Oxford Elliott, Jr. John R. 10. English Chronicle Contexts for Shakespeare's Death of Richard II Matheson Lister M. 11. Family by Death: Stage Images in Titus Andronicus and The Winter's Tale Robinson Randal 12. Bearing “A Wary Eye”: Ludic Vengeance and Doubtful Suicide in Hamlet McGuire Philip C. Contributors Index

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John A. Alford taught at Michigan State University, the University of California–Irvine, the University of Virginia, Leeds University (U.K.), and elsewhere. His works cover Chaucer to Wordsworth, from medieval rhetoric to modern critical theory. He won awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice) and the Guggenheim Foundation.

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