A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras

by Carol Symes

Medieval Arras was a thriving town on the frontier between the kingdom of France and the county of Flanders, and home to Europe's earliest surviving vernacular plays: The Play of St. Nicholas, The Courtly Lad of Arras, The Boy and the Blind Man, The Play of the Bower, and The Play about Robin and about Marion.

In A Common Stage, Carol Symes undertakes a cultural archeology of these artifacts, analyzing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801445817
• ISBN13: 9780801445811
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher