The Medieval Theatre

by Glynne Wickham

Book Overview

This is a thoroughly revised edition of Glynne Wickham's important history of the development of dramatic art in Christian Europe. Professor Wickham surveys the foundations on which this dramatic art was built: the architecture, costumes and ceremonial of the imperial court at Byzantium, the liturgies of countires in the Eastern and Western Empires and the triumph of the Roman rite and the Romanesque style in Western art. Within this context Professor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521312485
• ISBN13: 9780521312486
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Quite informative

I chose this book as a reference for an essay I had write for my college course of Western Theatre. It gave much information that I found quite informative.