Pageant

(Part of the Forms of Drama Series)

by Joan FitzPatrick Dean

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Focusing on examples from medieval theatre, women's suffrage campaigns, and the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer a critical overview of pageant as a dramatic form.

By enacting highly selective historical episodes, pageants manipulate audiences' sense of the past. Through iconic music, affecting images, and vernacular forms, pageants express and, in turn, shape religious, civic, or political allegiances. Freely...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1350144517

ISBN13:9781350144514

Release Date:August 2021

Publisher:Methuen Drama

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.1" x 7.7"

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Arts, Music & Photography History Performing Arts

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