Comprehensive, groundbreaking work encompasses vast amount of material—from the demise of ancient Roman spectacles (c. 400 a.d.) to a new class of professional players by the 16th-century. Excellent accounts of wandering minstrels, mimes, mummers, miracle and morality plays, puppet shows, dramatic pageants, liturgical plays and much more. An indispensable reference for historians, students of English theater and anyone interested in medieval life.
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