Enacting the Bible in medieval and early modern drama /

Enacting the Bible in medieval and early modern drama / / edited by Eva von Contzen and Chanita Goodblatt.

The thirteen chapters in this collection open up new horizons for the study of biblical drama by putting special emphasis on multitemporality, the intersections of biblical narrative and performance, and the strategies employed by playwrights to rework and adapt the biblical source material in Catho...

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Superior document:Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
:
Dutton, Elisabeth
TeilnehmendeR:
Contzen, Eva von,
Goodblatt, Chanita,
Place / Publishing House:Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2020.
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Manchester medieval literature and culture.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages) :; digital file(s).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Chanita Goodblatt and Eva von Contzen
  • Part I: Medieval drama
  • 1. Lay piety and impiety: the role of Noah's wife in the Chester play of Noah's Flood / Lawrence Besserman
  • 2. Typology, community, and stagecraft in the N-town 'Trial of Mary and Joseph' / Jonathan Stavsky
  • 3. Embodiment and joint attention: an enactive reading of the Middle English cycle plays / Eva von Contzen
  • Part II: From medieval to early modern drama
  • 4. From medieval to early modern choric threnody in biblical plays / Silvia Bigliazzi
  • 5. The itinerant healer as a stage role: its origins in religious drama / M. A. Katritzky
  • 6. Citing scripture in later medieval and early modern English morality drama / Cathy Shrank
  • 7. Religious violence and dramatic innovation in the Tudor interlude: John Heywood's The Pardoner and the Friar / Greg Walker
  • 8. Elizabethan biblical drama / Paul Whitfield White
  • Part III: Early modern drama
  • 9. Protestant place, Protestant props in the plays of Nicholas Grimald / Elisabeth Dutton
  • 10 Staging prophecy: A Looking Glass for London and the Book of Jonah / Hannibal Hamlin
  • 11. Early modern dramatic martyrdom / Monika Fludernik
  • 12. 'Samson Figuru nese': biblical plays between Czech drama and English comedy in early modern Central Europe / Pavel Drábek
  • 13. To play the Fool: the Book of Esther in early modern biblical drama / Chanita Goodblatt
  • Index.

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