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Article: Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph.(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2000
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Gordon Kipling, Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998). xv + 393 pp. ISBN 0-19-811760-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling].
Gordon Kipling's book is an outstanding contribution to the scholarship of medieval theatre, even though the subject matter, royal entries from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, is not a purely dramatic form. Yet recently the concept of drama has widened considerably to include many public events which do not rely upon a literary text so much as a combination of various arts, especially the visual. The thrust of the argument is that those preparing royal entries -- a ...