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Bryan, George Barton was born on September 29, 1939 in Owensboro, Kentucky, United States. Son of Joseph Michael and Lee Ola (Bellamy) Bryan.
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Medieval drama has been the subject of more intensive scholarly examination within the past decade than at any other time since its origin. In this book, the original medieval drama, the «Visitatio Sepulchri» of the «Regularis Concordia» and the «Winchester Troper» is delineated in terms of the environment in which it was created: the Monastic Revival of tenth-century England. The Easter music-drama is seen in the context of medieval English society, continental monastic reformation, liturgical practices, the fine arts, and learning. The writer concludes that the author of the «Visitatio Sepulchri» was Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, who at some time between 950 and 970 formulated the music-drama, drawing from secular theatrical conditions and adapting them to contemporary liturgical and devotional requirements. He presented his creation to the English monastic community as an act of worship, not as a separate dramatic entity but as a vital part of the extended ritual of Holy Week. Hence the music-drama must be studied in terms of music and liturgy as well as its literary text; failure to do so diminishes its dramatic magnitude and its powers of exciting worshipful awe of the transcendental reality of the Resurrection.
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Bryan, George Barton was born on September 29, 1939 in Owensboro, Kentucky, United States. Son of Joseph Michael and Lee Ola (Bellamy) Bryan.
Bachelor, Centenary College, 1961. Master of Religious Education, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1964. Master of Arts, Indiana University, 1969.
Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1971.
Actor, director, The Everyman Players, Indianapolis, 1958-1970; lecturer, Indiana U.-Purdue University, Indianapolis, 1966-1971; assistant professor, U. Vermont, Burlington, 1971; associate professor, U. Vermont, Burlington, 1975; director Center for Research on Vermont, U. Vermont, Burlington, 1986-1992; professor, U. Vermont, Burlington, since 1988.
(The Proverbial Bernard Shaw: An Index to Proverbs in the ...)
(This book will be useful to students of Ibsen and therefo...)
(Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was an inveterate user of pro...)
( This new book contains the most comprehensive bibliogra...)
(Medieval drama has been the subject of more intensive sch...)
(Literary critics and folklorists have long been intereste...)
(The professional American theatre, like its British count...)
(Harry S. Truman was not only a major political figure of ...)
Member American Society for Theatre Research, Center for Research on Vermont.