>Saturday, February 19, 2005, 6:56:43 AM, Ray Lurie wrote: ...the wager in the
>CT is ... a competition of skill, independent of chance. If your students wish
>to look for parallels, Elza, they should look at other forms of competition,
>such as tourneys, moots, academic disputations.
...and theater festivals, especially popular in Northern France and the
Netherlands, organized by confraternities since the middle of the 14th c. In the
contests prizes were promised and given in different categories: decorations,
costumes, best actor, special effects, music, and for the best play or poem as a
whole.
The strong contest tradition with its stress on rivalry, not on cooperation,
seems a continental feature which may be responsible for the absence (in the
Netherlands) of long cycle productions set up from parts prepared by different
crafts.
On the Netherlandic rederijkers ("rhetoricians") there are in English a couple
of contributions e.g. by Elza Strietman.
Andrzej Dabrówka
Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literary Research
Warsaw, Poland www.mediewistyka.net/dab/teatr.htm#about
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