Performing Medieval Narrative.(Book review)

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Performing Medieval Narrative, ed. Evelyn Birge Vitz, Nancy Freeman Regalado, and Marilyn Lawrence (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005). xvi + 261 pp. ISBN 1-84340-39-1. 45.00 [pounds sterling].

Here readers will find essays under four heads: 'Performers of narrative and their art', 'Performance and the book', 'Performability and narrative genres', and 'Perspectives from contemporary performers'. Firstly, Sioned Davies examines Welsh narrative and encounters the absence of data. Having written 'we must depend on internal, rather than external evidence' (p. 17), she continues, ...

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