Book chapter
Framing the Passion: mansion staging as visual mnemonic
Visualizing Medieval Performance, pp.263-277
Routledge, 1
2008
DOI: 10.4324/9781315084190-16
Abstract
This chapter examines the salvific embodiment and the resulting function of figurae in late medieval religious performance from the perspective of visual culture and memory. The significance of contemporary viewing habits for the Donaueschingen Passion Play should come as no surprise: Due to its extensive stage directions and frequent reliance on iconographic conventions, the play has long served as vivid proof for the centrality of visual culture for the late medieval German stage. The term figura, when occurring in a performance context, has frequently vexed theater historians, who have lamented the difficulty in distinguishing whether the term refers to a typological prefiguration per se or to its scenic representation. The expositors' actions from their assigned locations reveal alternate approaches in directing audience attention about the stage. In Frankfurt, movement is much more central to the experience of stage space.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Framing the Passion: mansion staging as visual mnemonic
- Creators
- Glenn Ehrstine - University of Iowa, German
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Visualizing Medieval Performance, pp.263-277
- Edition
- 1
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781315084190-16
- Alternative title
- Glenn Ehrstine
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2008
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; History; German
- Record Identifier
- 9984278131502771
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