{"product_id":"the-play-about-the-antichrist-ludus-de-antichristo-a-dramaturgical-analysis-historical-commentary-and-latin-edition-with-a-new-english-verse-tran-9781501517983","title":"The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo): A Dramaturgical Analysis, Historical Commentary, and Latin Edition with a New English Verse Tran","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Play about the Antichrist\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eLudus de Antichristo\u003c\/em\u003e) was composed around 1160 at the imperial Bavarian abbey of Tegernsee, at a critical point in the power-struggle between the papacy and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. This new translation and commentary reveals this drama to be strikingly representative of the role that theatrical performance played in shaping contemporary politics, diplomacy, and public opinion. It also shows how drama functioned as an integral component of the educational curricula of elite monastic institutions like Tegernsee, where political administrators and diplomats were trained, and how performance served as a common, connective \u003cem\u003elingua franca\u003c\/em\u003e among monasteries in twelfth-century Bavaria. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e In this new translation, Carol Symes provides the first full and faithful rendering of the play's dynamic language, maintaining the meter, rhyme scheme, and stage directions of the Latin original and restoring the liturgical elements embedded in the text. Kyle A. Thomas, whose fully-staged production tested the theatricality of this translation, provides a new historical and dramaturgical analysis of the play's rich interpretive and performative possibilities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Medieval Institute Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501517983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d","brand":"Kyle A. Thomas, Carol Symes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43471162278069,"sku":"9781501517983","price":35.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1ae4de96-f64b-4b1d-88de-fe9c035ecb54.jpg?v=1704823334","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-play-about-the-antichrist-ludus-de-antichristo-a-dramaturgical-analysis-historical-commentary-and-latin-edition-with-a-new-english-verse-tran-9781501517983","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}