Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Alan J. Fletcher and Wim Hüsken -- Illustrations / Alan J. Fletcher and Wim Hüsken -- Introduction / Alan J. Fletcher -- Sur la Notion de Théâtre Populaire Appliquée au Moyen Age / Konrad Schoell -- Théâtre Médiéval et Fêtes Calendaires ou l'Histoire d'une Subversion / Jean-Claude Aubailly -- Magical Transformation: A Folk Tale Motif in the Farce / Alan E. Knight -- Les Eléments Folkloriques dans le Théâtre d'Adam de la Halle / J. Charles Payen -- Désenchantement et Ironie Dramatique chez Adam de la Halle / Herman Braet -- ‘His Majesty shall have tribute of me': the King Game in England / Nicholas M. Davis -- Structural and Thematic Recurrence in Beunans Meriasek / Merle Fifield -- ‘The Bodley Burial and Resurrection': Late English Liturgical Drama? / Peter Meredith -- Clerics and Juglaría: A Study in Medieval Attitudes / E. Catherine Dunn -- Le Drame Liturgique et le Mystère Médiéval en Pologne / Eleonora Udalska.

Between Folk and Liturgy , the title of this collection, should not be understood to refer to some fixed point, some stable place between the two extremes of an illiterate and a literate culture. Rather, the title flags the wide and colourful spectrum of medieval dramatic possibility. Perhaps except one, none of the ten essays published here deal with a drama existing purely at either end of this scale. They add to our impression of the teaming fecundity and hybridism of early European drama, an impression that grows apace once we start to consider dramas situated Between Folk and Liturgy. The geographical terrain that the essays traverse ranges from the British Isles in the west to Poland in the east. The suppleness of the approaches taken here is the minimum critical requirement of anyone wanting to do justice to so complex and multifold a phenomenon as is early European drama.

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