Drama and the Performing Arts in Old Kilkenny

If Dublin’s Corpus Christi pageantry was derelict by the end of the sixteenth century, there was one Irish town where it was still thriving. Remarkably, it also throve there until at least 1637, which probably makes it the longest lived of any of the Corpus Christi dramas known in the British Isles....

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Published inDrama, Performance, and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland p. 161
Main Author Fletcher, Alan J
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Canada University of Toronto Press 2000
Subjects
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Arts
Bailiffs
Behavioral sciences
Business
Business structures
Catholicism
Ceremonial objects
Ceremonies
Christianity
Corporations
Corpus Christi plays
Crosses
Cultural anthropology
Cultural customs
Devotional objects
Ethnography
Ethnology
European studies
Government
Government officials
Human geography
Irish culture
Irish drama
Irish studies
Judicial officers
Performing arts
Pilgrimages
Political geography
Political science
Polities
Practical theology
Processions
Religion
Religious drama
Religious practices
Rituals
Social sciences
Sovereign states
Spiritual belief systems
Theater
Theater history
Theatrical genres
Theology
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Summary:If Dublin’s Corpus Christi pageantry was derelict by the end of the sixteenth century, there was one Irish town where it was still thriving. Remarkably, it also throve there until at least 1637, which probably makes it the longest lived of any of the Corpus Christi dramas known in the British Isles. Its longevity was nourished on an unusual cocktail of circumstances: the town’s relative distance from Dublin, the centre of English reform and conformity, relieved it of the obligation of having to behave as a dedicated follower of the capital’s fashion; it had its own particular agendas which drama
ISBN:0802043771
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