Includes bibliographical references (pages 889-982) and indexes.
Contents:
Volume 1. The Manuscript Evidence of Florentine Sacre Rappresentazioni -- Plays in Churches -- Youth Confraternities and Their Plays -- Edifici for the Feast of St. John the Baptist -- Playing Outdoors -- Antonia Pulci, Antonio Miscomini, and the Transition to Print -- Volume 2. Defying Anonymity: Belcari, Poliziano, Bellincioni, and Lorenzo de' Medici -- Bartolomeo de' Libri, Antonio Miscomini, and the Illustrated Editions -- Savonarola and Beyond: Castellano Castellani -- The Afterlife of the Plays.
Summary:
"Playful pleasure or devout piety? Why did Florentines invest so much effort in the performance of "sacre rappresentazioni", their dramatizations of the life of Christ and the saints, the history of Man's Salvation from the Creation to the Last Judgement, Old and New Testament stories, and miracles of the Virgin? Drawing on manuscript and printed plays, confraternal and communal archives, chronicles and letters, this study explores in fine detail and with careful attention to chronology the performance groups and their motives, and the financing, staging, and reception of their plays. Woven into this exploration is an account of the transmission of the plays first in manuscript and later in print, with woodcuts that have guaranteed their survival to the present day."-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Publications of the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies. Essays and studies ; 48
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