Towards a way of Reading Scenic Space in Dramatic Texts of the Czech Middle Ages

0368804 - FLÚ 2012 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Vršecká-Kvízová, Kateřina
Towards a way of Reading Scenic Space in Dramatic Texts of the Czech Middle Ages.
Theatralia : revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře. Roč. 14, č. 1 (2011), s. 65-81. ISSN 1803-845X
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90090514
Keywords : scenic space * Czech drama * Middle Ages
Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

The article attempts to examine various possibilities for interpreting the reflections of space that appear in medieval dramatic texts of Bohemian origin. It focuses on some texts of Easter ceremonies and plays of the Visitatio sepulchri type, as well as Easter Czech Latin plays of the Three Mary type, The Ressurection Play from the Clementinum Codex and The Play of Merry [sic] Magdalene. The author's argument focuses primarily on considerations of stage (or performance) space as it appears in surviving dramatic texts and rubrics. According to the methodology propounded by the author it appears that the interpretation of stage space must be based on combined analysis of rubrics, dramatic texts and generic knowledge relating to the architectural environments in which medieval drama took place, and at the same time references to the dramatic (or mimetic) space implied in both the main texts and their descriptive rubrics needs to be considered.
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