Medieval Theatre Performance – Actors, Dancers, Automata and their Audiences

Philip Butterworth, Katie Normington

Introduction From Archive to Repertoire: The Disguising at Hertford and Performance Practices - Claire Sponsler Walk, Talk, Sit, Quit? On What Happens in Netherlandish Rhetoricians' Plays - Bart Ramakers Performing Intrusions: Interaction and Interaxionality in Medieval English Theatre - Tom Pettitt Player Transformation: The Role of Clothing and Disguise - Katie Normington Pavilioned in Splendour: Performing Heaven in Fifteenth-Century Florence - Nerida Newbigin Living Pictures: Drama without Text, Drama without Action - David N. Klausner Performer-Audience Relationships in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Danced Spectacles - Jennifer Nevile Decadance in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of Choreomania - KathrynEmily Dickason Writing, Telling and Showing Horsemanship in Rhetoricians' Farce - Femke Kramer Inanimate Performers: The Animation and Interpretive Versatility of the Palmesel - Max Harris 'lyke unto a lyvelye thyng': The Boxley Rood of Grace and Medieval Performance - Leanne Groeneveld The Mechanycalle 'Ymage off Seynt Iorge' at St Botolph's, Billingsgate, 1474 - Philip Butterworth Bibliography