Pageant

by Joan FitzPatrick Dean

Book Overview

Focusing on examples from medieval theatre, women's suffrage campaigns, and the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer a critical overview of pageant as a dramatic form.

By enacting highly selective historical episodes, pageants manipulate audiences' sense of the past. Through iconic music, affecting images, and vernacular forms, pageants express and, in turn, shape religious, civic, or political allegiances. Freely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350144517
• ISBN13: 9781350144514
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.7"