Research Guides: Theatre Appreciation (43-101): Medieval/Gothic

Medieval/gothic (1200-1450)

A Cultural History of Theatre by Jack Watson
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design,theater design, and technical innovations
  Theater and society
- Influence on modern or contemporary theater
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 4 The Medieval Era
- Social Ideas/Art Ideas/Chambers of Rhetoric (Theater and Society)
- Medieval Theatre – Occasion, Location, Performers, Audience, Standards of Judgement (Acting, performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations)
- Dramatic Literature – Liturgical Drama/Other Religious Forms/Later Secular Forms/Hrosvit of Gandersheim (Representative plays and playwrights)
- Connections: (Influence on modern or contemporary theater)
- Spectacle, mock combats and dances
- Drama of moral instruction
- Presentation – pageant wagons, stage machinery, general playing area -plateau
- Theater of faith and community
Western theatre: Revolution and revival by Patti P. Gillespie
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 8 Vernacular religious theatre of the Middle Ages, ca. 1250-1600
- The Latter Middle Ages – Feudalism/The Church/Monasticism/Knowledge and Education/The Rise of the Vernacular/Cities and City Dwellers/Islam, Byzantium, and the Crusades/Technology. (Theater and Society)
- Production Organization/Production Responsibility/Expenditures and Income (directing, stage management)
- Actors and Geniuses
- Costumes
- Audiences
- Theatrical Production of the Vernacular Religious Plays – Simultaneous Place-and-Scaffold Staging/Staging in the Round/Irregular Theatres/Linear Theatres/Other arrangement/The Theatre of Procession and Pageant Wagon/Machinery and Special Effects (stage design, theater design and technical innovations)
- Later Medieval Theatre and Its Drama/Early Religious Plays in the Vernacular/Later Vernacular Plays and the Great Cycles/Other Vernacular Plays: Saints’ Plays and Moralities (Representative plays)
Theatre: a history of the art by Jerry V. Pickering
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 4 The Medieval Theatre
- The Medieval World – Rise of Christianity/Development of Feudalism/The Classical Heritage (Theater and Society)
- The Folk Drama – Mummings and Disguisings/Liturgical Drama/Mysteries, Miracles, and Moralities/The Wakefield Master (Representative plays)
- Hrotswitha/Jean Bodel/Adam de Halle (Representative playwrights)
- Staging Liturgical Drama/Stages and Scenery/Spectacle
- Acting
- Costumes
Theatre Past and Present: an introduction by Milly S. Barranger
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, costumes, stage design, theater design and technical innovations
- Representative plays and dramatists of the time
- Influence on modern or contemporary theater
- Chapter 4 Medieval Theater
- Representative Theatre: York Cycle/Popular Entertainments – Mummings/Pageants and Royal Entries/Cycle Plays/Saint or Miracle Plays/Farces/Morality Plays/The Crucifixion Play (Representative plays)
- Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim (Representative Playwright)
- Conditions of Performance –Background, Religious and Civic Purposes (Culture and Society)
- York Cycle – Playwriting, Acting and Rehearsals
- Visual Elements – Staging/Special Effects/
- The Cycle Play’s Modernism (Influence on modern or contemporary theater)
Period Style for the Theatre by Douglas A. Russell
(2 hour loan) This is good for:
- Theater design, costumes, acting, society and culture, representative playwrights and plays
- Chapter 5 Early Medieval Romanesque Style
- Chapter 6 Late Medieval Gothic Style
- Art and Culture/Music/Life and Cultural Ideals (Culture and Society)
- Ornament, Interiors, Furniture/The Theatre (Stage Design and Theater Design)
- Costume and Accessories
- Movement/Acting the Plays
- The Plays (Representative plays and Playwrights)
History of the Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, technical innovations
- Theater, Society, and Culture
- Representative plays of the time
- Chapter 4 European Theatre in the Middle Ages
- Introduction/The Theatre, 500 to 900 C.E./Feast of Fools/ (Culture and Society).
- Liturgical Drama/ Vernacular Religious Drama/Secular Dramatic Forms/Farce/Morality Play/Interludes/Tournaments,Mummings, and Disguisings/Royal Entries and Street Pagenants (Representative plays)
- Staging of Liturgical Drama/Music/Audiences and Auditoriums (Performance and Audience)
- Production Arrangement/The Director (Directing)
- The Stages/Scenery/Special Effects and Machinery Theatre Architecture/Auditorium and Audience (Stage Design)
- Actors and Acting
- Costumes

Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre by Richard Beadle, editor
Call Number: 792.0942 C17c 2008
ISBN: 9780521864008
Publication Date: 2008
The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre by Janette Dillon
Call Number: 792.0942 D57c
Publication Date: 2006
Medieval Drama by Christine Richardson and Jackie Johnston
Call Number: 822.09 R52m
Publication Date: 1991
A Companion to the Medieval Theatre by Ronald W. Vince, editor
Call Number: 792.09 C73c
ISBN: 9780313246470
Publication Date: 1989
The Mediaeval Stage by E.K. Chambers
Call Number: 792.09 C44m 1996
ISBN: 0486292290
Publication Date: 1996
The Theatre in the Middle Ages; western European stage conditions, c. 800-1576 by William Tydeman
Call Number: 792.09 T97t
ISBN: 0521218918
Publication Date: 1978
The English Morality Play: origins, history, and influence of a dramatic tradition by Robert Potter
Call Number: 822.09 P86e
ISBN: 0710080336
Publication Date: 1975
The English Mystery Plays by Rosemary Woolf
Call Number: 822.09 W91e
ISBN: 0520022769
Publication Date: 1972
The Medieval Theatre by Glynne W. Wickham
Call Number: 792.09 W63m 1987
ISBN: 9780521320696
Publication Date: 1987
Medieval English Drama by Katie Normington
Call Number: 792.0942 N85m
ISBN: 9780745636047
Publication Date: 2009

The Theatre of the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780761860037
Plays and Their Makers up to 1576
ISBN: 9781136288906
Publication Date: 2013
Stages and Playgoers : From Guild Plays to Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780773569706
Publication Date: 2002
Use chapter one, Oure plays.
Staging Scripture : Biblical Drama, 1350-1600
ISBN: 9789004313958
Publication Date: 2016

Medieval/Gothic Theatre: Subjects

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Daily Life in Medieval Europe by Jeffery L. Singman
Call Number: 940.1 S61d
ISBN: 9780313302732
Publication Date: 1999
Daily Life in Chaucer's England by Jeffery L. Singman and Will McLean
Call Number: 942.037 S61d
ISBN: 0313293759
Publication Date: 1995

Medieval Europe: 500 CE–1500 CE

Links to Scripts for Medieval/Gothic Plays in Print on Reserve

Reading list for theatre majors

Print Books in Owens Library Collection

Online Full Text of Play Scripts from Drama Online

Everyman
ISBN: 9780713666618
Mankind

Articles on representative plays and playwrights in Cambridge Guide to Theatre

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
ISBN: 9780787656959
Online Full Text
ARNOUL GRÉBAN
Call Number: Electronic Source
ISBN: 9780787656959
International dictionary of theatre by Mark Hawkins-Dady
Call Number: 792.03 I611i v.2
ISBN: 1558620958
Publication Date: 1992
2. Playwrights
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim p.497
A Companion to the medieval theatre by Ronald W. Vince
Call Number: 792.09 C73c
ISBN: 9780313246470
Publication Date: 1989

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