Expository Voices in Medieval Drama: Essays on the Mode and Function of Dramatic Exposition

Softcover, Nürnberg: Verlag Hans Carl, 1975. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued.

Signed by author with additional inscription on half title page. Book is in the English language. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers have wear at lower spine area, handling wear, small amount of writing at top front. ; Contents: The Visitatio Sepulchri as actualization of dramatic impulses in the ninth and tenth centuries. The voices of the choir in the liturgical drama. The use of exposition as compositional technique in the vernacular drama. From St. Augustine to the prologist: expositors in the German Easter and passion plays. The role of expositor and contemplacio in the Chester Cycle and the Ludus Coventriae. Epilogue. Notes. Appendices, bibliography, index. ; Erlanger Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kunstwissenschaft; Vol. 53; 9.0" tall ; 168 pages; Signed by Author.

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