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A) MEDIEVAL THEATRE

Here are two introductory chapters, one covering early medieval theatre up to around 1300, the other dealing with later medieval theatre. They should be read as overviews and as background to the historical source documents.

medieval1.doc [no longer available as download - I will email this to you individually]

medieval2.doc [no longer available as download - I will email this to you individually]

Here are extracts from historical source documents relating to particular aspects of medieval theatre:

B) THEATRE POPULAIRE

These are the core texts for théâtre populaire. I suggest you read them in the order numbered.

1 Topics (topics to be covered in class + bibliography)

2 People’s theatre (article giving a historical overview of théâtre populaire)

3 Vilar (introductory chapter about Vilar)

4 Mot pour mot (extract from Jean Vilar, Mot pour mot)

5 Interview (with Jean Vilar, extracted from his book De la tradition théâtrale)

6. An atheistic Don Juan (study of Vilar's production of Molière’s Don Juan as an example of how classics were treated at the TNP)

7. Success or failure at the TNP? (J-P Sartre and Vilar assess what was achieved by the TNP). NB: not available as download - collect as hand-out.

8 Decentralisation (short account of the decentralisation movement)

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