"REGULARIS CONCORDIA" AND THEATRE AND DRAMA OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES.
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Title
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"REGULARIS CONCORDIA" AND THEATRE AND DRAMA OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES.
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Identifier
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AAI8708295
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identifier
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8708295
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Creator
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KOBIALKA, MICHAL ANDRZEJ.
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Contributor
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Charles Gattnig
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Date
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1987
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater | Literature, Medieval
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Abstract
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This study reexamines the existing evidence concerning the origin of medieval theatre and drama. Its major objective is to offer a fresh analysis of the Regularis Concordia, a tenth-century monastic consuetudinary (a rule for the daily activities of monks) in which the Quem quaeritis is housed. The manuscript is viewed in the context of the history of the Church and monasticism in order to ascertain its value as a document in the history of theatre. The close examination of the evidence indicates that the Regularis Concordia had little or nothing to do with the origin of drama.;This thesis is substantiated by the close textual and contextual study of the Quem quaeritis passage. This dissertation addresses the nature of the Quem quaeritis: is it a play, a drama, a music-drama, or a ritual? The problem of its shift from the Introit of the Easter Mass to Nocturns (Matins, according to modern terminology) on Easter Day is discussed. The findings show that, even though the Quem quaeritis does contain the basic elements of drama, there is no evidence in the Regularis Concordia that it was regarded as drama in its own day or that it contributed to the development of liturgical drama. In fact, the available historical evidence points in the opposite direction; the Quem quaeritis was reserved for the private devotions of monks, and it disappeared from later consuetudinaries.;Therefore, the Quem quaeritis was a private monastic Easter service written into the Regularis Concordia at the Synod of Winchester (ca. A.D. 965-975). There is no indication in the document itself that drama or theatre was intended either as a product or by-product of that consuetudinary.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Theatre
