5 Temporal-spatial problems
The very notion of stage space is a modern (Renaissance and post-Renaissance) invention. This chapter examines two medieval vernacular plays, Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas and The Castle of Perseverance. The ways in which their representations of borders and crossing borders show that demarcations related to time and space regarding the self and others are socio-culturally dependent.
The presumption
Scholars have well-traversed the implications of different stage spaces and how they affect interpretation and personal experience. The proscenium arch is everyone faced forward, like a “prisoner ...
