The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo)

Kyle A. Thomas is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Missouri State University and a theatre historian with a specialization in medieval drama and performance. His work focuses on dramaturgical methodologies for analyzing early medieval Latin drama and postmodern approaches to staging medieval plays. His innovative staging techniques were applied in productions of The Play about the Antichrist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and The Play of Adam at the Met Cloisters, New York City. Kyle is also the chief editor of the journal, ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama. Carol Symes is Professor of History, Theatre, Classics, and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has also published verse translations of the 12th-century Latin comedy Babio and of the Old French　Ordo representacionis Ade (Play of Adam), which received its premiere at The Met Cloisters in New York City, in a production directed by Kyle A. Thomas. Her work interrogates the role of documentation as a medium of premodern communication and the mediation of knowledge in, and about, the medieval world.　

Foreword

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations



Part I: The Play: Historical, Literary, and Performance Contexts

Introduction

1. A Performance Dramaturgy

2. History, Eschatology, and Educations: Contextual Frameworks for "The Play about the Antichrist"

3. Liturgies, Æsthetics, and Symbolic Meaning-Making



Part II: The Play about the Antichrist/Ludus de Antichristo

Introduction

Dramatis Personæ

A New Verse Translations and Diplomatic Edition

Bibliography