Medieval theatre reading list

Beadle, Richard, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994

Happe, Peter, ed., Medieval English Drama, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1984

Harris, John Wesley, Medieval Theatre in Context: An Introduction , London: Routledge, 1992

Nelson, Alan H., The Medieval English Stage: Corpus Christi Pageants & Plays, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1974

Ogden, Dunbar H., The Staging of Drama in the Medieval Church, Newark, Delaware, University of Delaware Press;  Cranbury, New Jersey, Associated University Presses, c2002

Richardson, Christine, and Johnston, Jackie, Medieval Drama, Basingtoke, Macmillan, 1991

Taylor, Jerome, and Nelson, Alan H., Medieval English Drama: Essays Critical and Contextual, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972

Twycross, Meg, and Carpenter, Sarah, Masks and Masking in Medieval and early Tudor England, Aldershot: Ashgate, c2002

 Tydeman, William, English Theatre 1400-1500, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986

 Warning, Rainer, The Ambivalences of Medieval Religious Drama, Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2001

 Wickham, Glynne, Early English Stages, 1300-1660, 4 vols., London, Routledge, 1963-2002

Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950

From 19 May 2012 the V&A celebrates the opening of the newly renovated Fashion Galleries with an exhibition of beautiful ballgowns, red carpet evening dresses and catwalk showstoppers.

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Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture

Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture

Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum

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Event - Subsidy, Patronage & Sponsorship : Theatre and Performance Culture in Uncertain Times

Thu 19 July 2012–Sat 21 July 2012

CONFERENCE: The V&A and the University of Reading are organising an international conference related to the major AHRC project, ‘Giving Voice to the Nation': the Arts Council of Great Britain and the development of theatre and Performance in Britain 1945-1995.

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