The Idea of the Theater in Latin Christian Thought: Augustine to the Fourteenth Century

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Contents R Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 chapter one The Idea of a Theater in Late Antiquity: Augustine’s Critique and Isidore’s History 11 chapter two Transmission and Transformation: Liturgical Allegory and the Idea of Theater 43 chapter three Renaissance and Reorientation: Ancient Theater Revisited in the Twelfth Century 72 chapter four From Poetics to Performance: The Reception and Interpretation of Aristotle’s Poetics to the Early Fourteenth Century 95 chapter five Afterword: From Idea to Practice 125 Notes 129 Bibliography 177 Index 191 ...