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Theater, Culture, and Community in Reformation Bern, 1523-1555

Glenn Ehrstine
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      This study examines the sociocultural context of ten plays performed during the formative years of the Bernese Reformation. It treats not only three pre-reform carnival plays by Niklaus Manuel, but also six newly edited works by local court secretary Hans von Rüte.Individual chapters focus on the plays’ polemics, staging, and choruses, as well as on local Zwinglian reform. An appendix contains the plays’ fifteen song texts.The vivid staging and choral interludes of Bern’s Reformation theater belie the assumption that the city’s Zwinglian reform, which eliminated imagery and song from religious worship, rejected images and music in all forms. The confessional diatribe of Rüte’s later works further illuminates Bern’s policies towards Zurich and Geneva, demonstrating that biblical plays were no less political than their carnival predecessors.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Glenn Ehrstine EAN: 9789004123533 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 805 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-11-27 CITY: GENRE: ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Switzerland, Other Germanic languages and dialects, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Cultural studies

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      Glenn Ehrstine, Ph.D. (1995), University of Texas at Austin, is Associate Professor of German at the University of Iowa. He has authored articles on medieval and Reformation literature in Daphnis, Euphorion, The Sixteenth Century Journal, and other publications.
      This study examines the sociocultural context of ten plays performed during the formative years of the Bernese Reformation. It treats not only three pre-reform carnival plays by Niklaus Manuel, but also six newly edited works by local court secretary Hans von Rüte.Individual chapters focus on the plays’ polemics, staging, and choruses, as well as on local Zwinglian reform. An appendix contains the plays’ fifteen song texts.The vivid staging and choral interludes of Bern’s Reformation theater belie the assumption that the city’s Zwinglian reform, which eliminated imagery and song from religious worship, rejected images and music in all forms. The confessional diatribe of Rüte’s later works further illuminates Bern’s policies towards Zurich and Geneva, demonstrating that biblical plays were no less political than their carnival predecessors.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Glenn Ehrstine EAN: 9789004123533 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 805 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-11-27 CITY: GENRE: ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Switzerland, Other Germanic languages and dialects, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Cultural studies

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      Glenn Ehrstine, Ph.D. (1995), University of Texas at Austin, is Associate Professor of German at the University of Iowa. He has authored articles on medieval and Reformation literature in Daphnis, Euphorion, The Sixteenth Century Journal, and other publications.

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