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Notes and Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Natalie Crohn Schmitt
Natalie Crohn Schmitt
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University of Illinois, Chicago Circle
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Theatre Survey , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , November 1977 , pp. 96 - 98
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1977

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NOTES

1 A. M. Nagler, New Haven, 1976, p. 52Google Scholar. Southern, Richard, The Medieval Theatre in the Round (London, 1957); second edition, 1975Google Scholar. In the second edition Southern tries to buttress his position by adding information about the Cornish rounds but he does not deal with, nor even acknowledge the objections which have been put forth against his position. Schmitt, "Was There a Medieval Theatre in the Round? A Re-examination of the Evidence," Theatre Notebook, XXIII (1968), 130-42, and XXIV (1969), 18-25Google Scholar; reprinted in Jerome Taylor and Alan H. Nelson, ed., Medieval English Drama (Chicago, 1972), pp. 292-315Google Scholar.

2 Theatre Notebook, XXVIII (1974), 124-132Google Scholar.

3 Totowa, N. J., 1973; Theatre Survey, XIV (1973), 19Google Scholar.

4 Theatre Notebook, XXIII, 131-32Google Scholar.

5 Dramaturgie et Société, ed. Jacquot, Jean (Paris, 1968), Vol. 2, opp. p. 434Google Scholar.

6 Wickham, Glynn, The Medieval Stage (New York, 1974), pp. 116–118Google Scholar argues that the central section of the play is modelled on a joust, and that therefore, as here, the audience could not have been within the place but only surrounding it.