Croxton Play of the Sacrament

Klappentext The play survives in a single sixteenth-century copy, dramatizes the physical abuse by five Muhammad-worshipping Syrian Jews of a Host, the bread consecrated by a priest during the Christian Mass. The text is the work of a playwright possessed of a tremendous theatrical imagination, notwithstanding his choice of subject matter. Zusammenfassung The play survives in a single sixteenth-century copy, dramatizes the physical abuse by five Muhammad-worshipping Syrian Jews of a Host, the bread consecrated by a priest during the Christian Mass. The text is the work of a playwright possessed of a tremendous theatrical imagination, notwithstanding his choice of subject matter.

Product details

• Authors: Play of the Sacrament, John T. (EDT) Sebastian
• Assisted by: John T Sebastian (Editor), John T. Sebastian (Editor)
• Publisher: Western michigan uni medieval
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2012
• EAN: 9781580441810
• ISBN: 978-1-58044-181-0
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: MIP Teams Middle English Texts Series; Teams Middle English Texts Series; Teams Middle English Texts Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies