The Second Birth of Theatre: Performances of AngloSaxon Monks (Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance),Used

The Second Birth of Theatre: Performances of AngloSaxon Monks (Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance),Used

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This book presents a new approach to early English theatre by exposing a genuine relationship between monastic performances and theatricality. It argues that modern theatre was reinvented in AngloSaxon monasteries by monks who were required to transform themselves by disciplining their bodies and performing complex religious acts. After extensively surveying the monastic and liturgical sources of theatre the author reconstructs the XIIcentury staging of the AngloNorman Ordo representacionis Ade and demonstrates the fundamental incongruity between the ancient and Christian performativity. On a more personal note he concludes with comments on references to the monastic rule in Performer, a programmatic text by Jerzy Grotowski.

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