Drama and Resistance - 9780816629275

Drama and ResistanceBodies, Goods, and Theatricality in Late Medieval England\nAuthor(s): Claire Sponsler\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816629275, 978-0816629275\nSynopsis\nProvides a cultural and historical context for medieval popular drama.\n\nIn Drama and Resistance, Claire Sponsler explores the intertwined histories of bodily subjectivity, commodity culture, and theatricality in late medieval England. In a fascinating consideration of popular drama in the period from 1350 to 1520, she argues that many types of performances during this time represented cultural evasions of the imposition of disciplinary power. \n\nThe medieval theater was a social site where resistance, masked from the full scrutiny of authority by theatricality, was practiced, articulated, and enacted. Sponsler examines three key discourses of authoritarian bodily and commodity control-clothing laws, conduct liter0