Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama
Editor(s): Richard K. Emmerson
Pages: xvii & 182 pp.
Published: 1990
ISBN: 9780873525329 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873525312 (hardcover)
"Practical, informative, and inspiring."
Bibliothèque d'humanisme et renaissance
"This is an impressive addition to the MLA series on Approaches to Teaching World Literature, worthy of circulation beyond its intended audience."
Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature
Anyone who has recently attended a professional meeting devoted to medieval drama or witnessed a revival of a medieval play knows that the genre is alive and flourishing. This volume offers help for new teachers of these works, encourages experienced teachers to rethink classroom presentation of familiar plays, and suggests new ways for all teachers to integrate medieval drama into undergraduate courses.
Like other books in the Approaches series, this one is divided into two parts. The first part, "Materials," reviews editions, translations, and anthologies of medieval drama and discusses useful secondary readings for both students and instructors. In the second part, "Approaches," seventeen essays present a rich array of ideas for teaching medieval English drama, from the liturgical texts of the tenth century to the morality plays and cycle plays of the fifteenth century. Several authors focus on particular classroom strategies; others apply methodologies informed by theoretical approaches such as feminism, semiotics, and anthropology; still others discuss staging and performance of the plays.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama
Introduction
V. A. Kolve
PART 1: MATERIALS
Richard K. Emmerson
- Editions and Translations
- Teaching an Anthology of Medieval Drama
- Teaching a Single Mystery Cycle
- Teaching Medieval Drama in a Survey Course
Required and Recommended Readings for Students
- The Instructor's Library
- Reference Works
- Background Studies
- Critical and Literary Studies of the Drama
- Studies of the Medieval Theater
Aids to Teaching
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
Prologue
Medieval Drama: Genres, Misconceptions, and Approaches
Martin Stevens
Critical and Theoretical Approaches
Teaching the Medieval Latin "Drama": Reflections Historical and Theoretical
C. Clifford Flanigan
Cultural Approaches to Medieval Drama
Kathleen M. Ashley
The Semiotics of Christ's Body in the English Cycles
Peter W. Travis
A Feminist Approach to the Corpus Christi Cycles
Theresa Coletti
Typology and the Teaching of Medieval Drama
Pamela Sheingorn
Courses and Strategies
Faith and Prosperity: Cultural Values in Medieval Drama
Peter H. Greenfield
Middle English Drama and Middle English Lyrics
Mark Allen
Jesus Christ, Superstar and Medieval Drama: Anachronism and Humor
Michael L. Hall
A Theater of Domestication and Entrapment: The Cycle Plays
Robert W. Hanning
Medieval Drama through the Cycle Plays: Problems and Possibilities
John C. Coldewey
Staging and Performance
Escaping from English Literature: Dramatic Approaches to Medieval Drama
Robert Potter
The Harlotry Players: Teaching Medieval Drama through Performance
Martin W. Walsh
Festival and Drama
Milla C. Riggio
Tossing Mak Around
Míceál F. Vaughan
L'Envoi
Why Teach Medieval Drama?
David Bevington
Works Cited
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index of Dramatic Texts
Index of Names
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