IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1513: Performing Beauty: Playing and Staging Perfection
Thursday 4 July 2013, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society |
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Organiser: | Mario B. Longtin, Department of French Studies, University of Western Ontario |
Moderator/Chair: | Mario B. Longtin, Department of French Studies, University of Western Ontario |
Paper 1513-a | Staging Beauty in the Nativities of Medieval England and Castile (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Performance Arts - Drama |
Paper 1513-b | Sinfulness, Sanctity, and Bodily Transgressions: Representations of Disability and Impairment in Late Medieval Drama (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Performance Arts - Drama |
Paper 1513-c | 'Is this the face that launched a thousand ships?' (Or This? Or This?): The Beauty of Helen in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Performance Arts - Drama |
Abstract | The session will address the strategies deployed by early dramatists in order to make beauty apparent to the spectators. Is beauty suggested by versification, by an aesthetic distance, by telling the spectators that what they are seeing is beautiful, or by a technical device making beauty come alive? |