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035			_a(DE-B1597)9781501729928
035			_a(DE-B1597)515576
035			_a(OCoLC)1076634620
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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aSponsler, Claire _eautore
245	1	0	_aRitual Imports : _bPerforming Medieval Drama in America / _cClaire Sponsler.
264		1	_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©2004
300			_a1 online resource (248 p.) : _b16 halftones
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction: Performative Historiographies. Medieval Drama and the Making of America -- _tCHAPTER 1. Performing Conquest. The Jémez Matachines Dances -- _tCHAPTER 2. Selective Histories. Albany’s Pinkster Festival -- _tCHAPTER 3. Philadelphia’s Mummers and the Anglo-Saxon Revival -- _tCHAPTER 4. Reinventing Tradition. Brooklyn’s Saint Play -- _tCHAPTER 5. America’s Passion Plays -- _tCHAPTER 6. Medieval Plays and Medievalist Players -- _tEpilogue: The Future of Imported Rituals -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aThroughout the Americas, performances deriving from medieval European rituals, ceremonies, and festivities made up a crucial part of the cultural cargo shipped from Europe to the overseas settlements. In 1583, Sir Humphrey Gilbert sailed from Plymouth, England, to Newfoundland, bringing with him "morris dancers, hobby horses, and Maylike Conceits" for the "allurement of the savages" and the "solace of our people." His voyage closely resembled that of twelve Franciscan friars who in 1524 had arrived in what is now Mexico armed with a repertoire of miracle plays, religious processions, and other performances. These two events, although far from unique, helped shape initial encounters between Europeans and indigenous peoples; they also marked the first stages of the process that would lead—by no means smoothly—to a distinctively American culture.Ritual Imports is a groundbreaking cultural history of European performance traditions in the New World, from the sixteenth century to the present. Claire Sponsler examines the role of survivals and adaptations of medieval drama in shaping American culture from colonization through nation building and on to today's multicultural society. The book's subjects include New Mexican matachines dances and Spanish conquest drama, Albany's Pinkster festival and Afro-Dutch religious celebrations, Philadelphia's mummers and the Anglo-Saxon revival, a Brooklyn Italian American saint's play, American and German passion plays, and academic reconstructions of medieval drama. Drawing on theories of cultural appropriation, Ritual Imports makes an important contribution to medieval and American studies as well as to cultural studies and the history of theater.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650		0	_aDrama, Medieval _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aPerforming arts _zUnited States.
650		4	_aLiterary Studies.
650		4	_aMedieval & Renaissance Studies.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501729928
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501729928
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501729928/original
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