The present volume offers a collection of studies intended to give an overall picture of the International Colloquium on Medieval Theatre organized by the Instituut voor Middeleeuwse Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The reader will probably remark upon the fact that studies on medieval drama are as flourishing and diversified as their object itself once was. From liturgical drama to pageant, from nativity play to mystery, from latin comedy to 'sottie', morality and farce, one discovers here the various aspects of an output that covers more than five centuries. This selection hopefully represents a cross-section of contemporary work in the field. As methods evolve and ways of reading change, the subject reveals itself as something for ever old and new. Thus a number of contributors emphasize a formal approach. Both the analysis of a dramatic production as a structured entity—from the larger viewpoint of scenic organization right down to the level of verse or even rime—and as an actual performance, continue to shed valuable light on the theatrical event in its generic and historical context.
Acta est fabula. By way of Preface
Walter Berschin, Passio und Theater. Zur dramatischen Struktur einiger Vorlagen Hrotsvits von Gandersheim
Sandro Sticca, Sacred Drama and Tragic Realism in Hrotswitha's Paphnutius
Ferruccio Bertini, Simbologia e struttura drammatica nel Gallicanus e nel Pafnutius
Ludwig Braun, Die 'dramatische' Technik des Vitalis von Blois und sein Verhältnis zu seinen Quellen
Jean-Pierre Bordier, Le fils et le fruit. Le Jeu d'Adam entre la théologie et le mythe
Jacques Ribard, Théâtre et symbolisme au XIIIe siècle
Rosanna Brusegan, Le Jeu de Robin et Marion et l'ambiguité du symbolisme champêtre
Elisabeth Schulze-Busacker, Le théâtre occitan au XIVe siècle: le Jeu de Sainte Agnès
Giuseppe Di Stefano, Structure métrique et structure dramatique dans le théâtre médiéval
Jean-Claude Aubailly, Théâtre et rite: réflexions sur les structures symboliques de la sottie-spectacle
Jean Batany, Allégorie et typologie: le Tiers Etat dans quelques sotties et moralités
Hans van Dijk, The Structure of the ‘Sotternieën' in the Hulthem Manuscript
Franco Musarra, Strutture drammatiche della lauda
Johan Nowé, Kult oder Drama? Zur Struktur einiger Osterspiele des deutschen Mittelalters
Rolf Bergmann, Aufführungstext und Lesetext. Zur Funktion der Überlieferung des mitelalterlichen geistlichen deutschen Dramas
John E. Tailby, Die Luzerner Passionsspielaufführung des Jahres 1583: zur Deutung der Bühnenpläne Renward Cysats
Alexandra F. Johnston, The York Corpus Christi Play: A Dramatic Structure Base don Performance Practice
Index codicum manu scriptorum
Index nominum selectorum