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It will then put John Lydgate, poet and monk of St.
Edmunds Abbey at Bury St Edmunds into context. Dancers disguised in a mumming.
A civic mumming was enacted for the young king Richard II at the palace at Kennington, Christmas We know who the mummers were and how they were disguised. We are told of the music that accompanied them and the mysterious silent game of mumchance that was played.
But then who danced what and with whom? Lydgate wrote poetic texts or ballads for five mummings and a disguising c, enacted at Windsor, Eltham, Bishopswood and London. Themes were drawn from chivalric, classical, allegorical and biblical sources.
Characters depicted values and vices integral to early renaissance cultural representation. They were masked and costumed but the nature of the physical performance is not recorded.
How might dance or drama, debate or dumb show have been utilised to convey the enactment of such diverse material? You also may like to try some of these bookshops , which may or may not sell this item. Separate different tags with a comma.
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