Philip Butterworth

Magic on the Early English Stage

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This study explores the performance of magical tricks, illusions, effects, and their staged appearance in theatre from the medieval period to the seventeenth century. Performers who created such magic were not known as conjurors, as we might refer to them today, but as jugglers. Records concerning jugglers on the medieval stage have been hitherto misunderstood or misapplied. These references to jugglers on the medieval stage are re-examined in the light of references to 'feats of activity' that also include tumbling, vaulting, and 'dancing on the rope'; appearances and disappearances in respect of 'Now you see it, now you don't' and stage ver… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-521-82513-9
EAN: 9780521825139
Produktnummer: 1371136
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 318 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.3 cm 643 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 643

Über den Autor

Philip Butterworth is Reader in Medieval Theatre at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds. He is the author of Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in Early English and Scottish Theatre, and has published widely in journals on the subject of Medieval Theatre, including essays in 'Medieval English Theatre'. He is currently working, with Joslin McKinney, on The Cambridge Introduction to Scenography, to be published in 2006.