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The Cambridge Introduction to Medieval Theater (the revised edition) has some information about putatively "anti-theatrical" prejudices in medieval theater documents, and how we might reinterpret those -- that might be a good place to start. I'm pretty sure that information was in the introduction to the volume. Liza On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Abigail Ann Young <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > I confess that I cannot think of anything that quite meets the criteria in > this question, so I thought of throwing it open to the list. If you have any > suggestions, please reply both to the list and to Ms Berardini. > > Abigail > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Request of Information on G. Ferzoco suggestion > Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:47:36 +0100 (CET) > From: <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > > > > Dear Prof. Young, > I am writing you on Prof. George Ferzoco's suggestion. I am an Italian Phd > student and I am now spending a study period at the University of Bristol > working with Prof. G. Ferzoco and Prof. C. Muessig. My PhD research project > is about the relationship between medieval preaching and theatre. Thus I am > reading sermons by English and Italian preachers in order to discover hidden > theatrical element that can show the use of theatrical means by preachers. > In order to achieve this aim I am interested in finding documents (if they > exist) about the setting of the preaching scene by which is it possible to > demonstrate that medieval preaching shared a lot of features with theatre. > Although all of the authors of the Artes Praedicandi spoke against theatre > and tried to avoid any similarity between preachers and minstrels and > actors, still preachers used a lot of actors' means in order to catch the > attention of the public. > Have you ever find anything related with this topic? > It would be a pleasure to share with you my thoughts on this research as I > am very interested in your project. > Thank you for your kindness, I am looking forward for your reply, > Best, > Valentina Berardini > > > -- > Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ > Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada > Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask] > List-owner of REED-L <http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/reed-l.html> > http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/ => REED's home page > http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/stage.html => our Web guide > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/%7Eyoung>=> my home page >