Rapport between players and audience in 15th and early 16th century English drama
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Authors
Elphick, Anthony Beresford
Issue Date
1995-11
Type
Dissertation
Language
en
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Abstract
This dissertation falls in line with work produced during
the past fifteen years or so, aimed at improving our appreciation
of late medieval/early Tudor English Drama. The approach is based
especially on looking at the rapport likely to be achieved
between audience and players (and via the players, with the
playwrights), in actual performance.
Attention is given to the permanent modes of human thought,
that are unaffected by the ephemeralities of a particular period;
attention is therefore drawn to the traps that may mislead the
unwary twentieth-century critic, and some new insights are
offered into the purposes of the playwrights.
Several cycle plays are treated, together with two of the
moralities and two interludes. The point is made that these
playwrights showed a considerable mastery of the possibilities
inherent in drama, as is demonstrated by the provision for
achieving rapport with the audience
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Elphick, Anthony Beresford (1995) Rapport between players and audience in 15th and early 16th century English drama, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16743>