IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 624: Memory Theatre, II: Theatrical Memento
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Société internationale pour l'étude du théâtre médiéval (SITM) |
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| Organiser: | Cora Dietl, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen |
| Moderator/Chair: | M. A. Katritzky, Department of English, Open University, Milton Keynes |
| Paper 624-a | Three Memento mori Plays on the Late Medieval Majorcan Stage (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Performance Arts - Dance, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life |
| Paper 624-b | Memento mori on Swiss Stage: Johannes Kolross's Spil von Fünfferley betrachtnussen zur Buß (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life |
| Paper 624-c | 'And do not say 'tis superstition…': Shakespeare, Memory, and the Iconography of Death (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Language and Literature - Other |
| Abstract | In late medieval and early modern poetics, plays are often called the 'more effective sermons'. The papers in this session analyse plays dedicated to the aim of memento mori, and ask in how far these plays are really more effective than sermons, i.e. which theatrical modes they use for persuasion and moral instruction, how they visualise the reminded, and at the same time whether they also serve their theological duty as 'visible sermons': How orthodox are they in their teaching? |