Farce and Farcical Elements

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-420-1459-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Ludus

Farcical elements were incorporated into non-comic drama ever since the theatre had been rediscovered in the Middle Ages. Already at a very early stage, comic scenes proved to be popular additions to liturgical music drama and, later, to religious plays in the vernacular. Some scholars believe that the genre of farce developed out of these farcical elements. The suggestion was made that farces, similar to the stuffing of meat or poultry, had been added to plays to increase audience involvement. Other researchers see quite different origins for the farce. The present volume does not aspire to solve the question of the relationship between the two types of “comedy” on the medieval stages but its editors hope that it will nevertheless contribute to this discussion. In addition, it will enable its readers to form an impression of the huge variety of the comic in the vast area of medieval and early Renaissance theatre and drama.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hüsken, Wim

Schoell, Konrad

Søndergaard, Leif

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Wim Hüsken & Konrad Schoell: Introduction
Peter Happé: Farcical Elements in the English Mystery Cycles
Michael O'Connell: Mockery, Farce, and Risus Paschalis in the York Christ before Herod
Charlotte Spivack: Mirth and Mockery: The Devil's Way
Jean Paul Debax: Farce and Farcical Elements in the English Interludes, or: How the Vice beat the Farce.
Elizabeth Baldwin: Chaucer, Medieval Drama, and a Newly Discovered Seventeenth-Century Play: The Survival of Medieval Stereotypes?
Konrad Schoell: L’Individu et le Groupe Social dans la Farce
Jelle Koopmans: Les Eléments Farcesques dans la Sottie Française
Maria José Palla: ' Le Silence est le bouclier de la sagesse ': Le Dialogo da Ressurreição de Gil Vicente
Leif Søndergaard: Combat Between the Genders: Farcical Elements in the German Fastnachtspiel
Marie Lesaffre: Das heißt eysen, un Jeu de Carnaval de Hans Sachs
Danielle Buschinger: La Reception du Décaméron dans les Jeux de Carnaval de Hans Sachs
Joe G. Delap: From Revelry to Reality: Drinking, Poverty and Salvation in Hans Rudolf Manuel’s Weinspiel