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EARLY DRAMA ART AND MUSIC THE PLAY ABOUT THE ...

The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo) 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 lingua franca among monasteries in twelfth-century Bavaria. 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.

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