Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama - The Plays and Their Legacy

Klappentext A detailed study of the stories dramatised in Europe before 1500. Zusammenfassung The Bible is not the only source of serious medieval drama! although it is the best known. This book presents a detailed survey of the hundreds of non-biblical serious plays which survive from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. A valuable resource for scholars! students and enthusiasts of medieval theatre. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and short titles used in the text and notes; Introduction: staging the stories; Part I. War in Heaven: Saints and Sinners: 1. The noble army of martyrs; 2. White martyrdom: the hermits; 3. Soldiers of Christ: the Church militant; Part II. Miracles of Salvation: 4. Miraculous conversions of Jews (and a few pagans); 5. Sacrament plays; 6. Your adversary the Devil: the sacred and the damned; 7. Who sups with the Devil: the rash bargain; Part III. Conflicting Relationships: Love, Hate and Marriage: 8. Happily ever after: friends and lovers; 9. Premarital problems; 10. The falsely accused queen and other suffering wives; 11. Domestic dramas; 12. The wager; 13. Hell hath no fury: the woman scorned; 14. Family feuds; 15. The theatre of cruelty; 16. Le coeur mangé and other culinary surprises; Part IV. Power, Politics and Patriotism: 17. The siege of Troy; 18. The siege and destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70; 19. Early Christian Europe: Constantine to the crusades; 20. Christianity goes west; 21. The worthy, the proud and the popular; 22. Pride and the wheel of Fortune; 23. Affairs of state; 24. Patriots and popular heroes; Conclusion: from Queen of Heaven to Fairy Queen; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lynette Muir
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521153454
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15345-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights