Medieval puppetry6/29/2023 Here, we see them fight it out as puppets. The two great queens, Brunhild and Krimhild, hate each other. Posted in All Videos, Animals, Arthurian Legends, Brannon, Sean, Chrétien de Troyes, Classroom Setting, English, Modern, French, Old, Middle Ages: 12th-13th Century, Performers, Solo, Puppets, Recitation from Memory, Romance, Student/Alumni, United States, Without Musical Accompaniment, Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion (Yvain or the Knight with the Lion) Nibelungenlied: Krimhild and Brunhild puppets It was videoed by McKenzie Beehler and edited by Abigail Wahl. ![]() Timmie (E.B.) Vitz at New York University in spring 2013. This performance was created for the course “Acting Medieval Literature,” taught by Prof. Sean Brannon is a Drama student at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (2013). Fritz et al, Paris, Classiques Modernes/ Livre de Poche, 1994. Hult, in Romans de Chrétien de Troyes, eds./trans. Old French: Le Chevalier au Lion (Yvain), ed./trans. Ruth Harwood Cline, Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1975, pp. Yvain or The Knight with the Lion, trans. ![]() In the 13th century, some romances begin to be written in prose public and private readings become more frequent. In the 12th and 13th centuries, romances are composed in verse (typically octosyllabic rhymed couplets), and are commonly performed aloud from memory by minstrels romances are also sometimes read aloud. Many early romances tell the stories of knights and ladies at King Arthur’s court. Medieval romance arose in France and Anglo-Norman England in the 12th century and spread through Western and even Eastern Europe. Medieval romances are typically long narratives of love and adventure in which an aristocratic hero (or occasionally a heroine) proves himself in combat and courtship. The second half of the romance is devoted to adventures in which Yvain, accompanied by a lion, creates a new name for himself (the “Knight with the Lion”), recovers his honor through a series of good deeds, and finally wins back his wife. ![]() He then loses both her love and his honor through his failure to keep a vow to return home from his knightly activities by an agreed-upon date. The romance recounts the adventures of Yvain, a knight of King Arthur’s court, who wins the beautiful Laudine in marriage (having killed her husband in single combat). This great work, in octosyllabic rhymed couplets, was composed for Marie, Countess of Champagne, around 1170. Yvain is one of the five surviving romances by Chrétien de Troyes, who is often considered the father of Arthurian romance. (The same actor also performed this scene without puppets.) The solo performer performs the talk of love between Laudine and Yvain using animal puppets-a cat and a lion-to represent the two characters.
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