Andrew Prescott (University of Glasgow, UK), Prof. Pamela King (University of Glasgow, UK)
This book reviews the development of confraternities and shows how the procession emerged as a narrative-dramatic mode expressing their ideals and shared mythologies. It analyses the fundamental dramatic characteristics of processions such as the use of banners and the place of spoken action. It shows how the confraternal drama evolved over long time frames, with frequent appeals to tradition, in ways which problematize a number of formalist assumptions about drama and its evolution. While the range of this processional activity embraces bodies as diverse as religious confraternities,...
This book reviews the development of confraternities and shows how the procession emerged as a narrative-dramatic mode expressing their ideals and sha...
