Court Entertainments, Interludes, and Spectacles

It is possible that this fabliau, written some time between 1272 and 1283, might have been performed as an interlude by professional touring actors. (A fully-translated version can be found at http://www.unc.edu/~jwittig/51/sirith.htm as well.)

The Interludium (written in the first quarter of the 14th century) is the kind of play that might have been performed by minstrels as entertainment during a court feast.

Promotes and foster greater appreciati on for Spain's classical drama in production . Website includes texts and translatio ns of plays from the Renaissanc e and Baroque periods.

Description of the Feast of the Pheasant (1454) and some of the features of the palace of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, at Hesdin.

Brief description of interludes.

Brief biography of an author of 16th century interludes.

A descriptio n of the Bal des Ardents.

The interlude, which grew out of the morality, was intended, as its name implies, to be used more as a filler than as the main part of an entertainment.

Description of a Heywood interlude which consists of an argument between a pardoner, apothecary, palmer, and pedlar, to determine which is the most important.

View 253 digitized Renaissance festival books that describe the magnificent festivals and ceremonies that took place in Europe between 1475 and 1700 -- marriages and funerals of royalty and nobility, coronations, stately entries into cities and other grand events.