Enacting the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Drama

Informationen zum Autor Anke Bernau is lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester Klappentext 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 Catholic, Protestant and Jewish culture. Zusammenfassung 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 Catholic! Protestant and Jewish culture. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Besserman2 Typology, community, and stagecraft in the N-town 'Trial of Mary and Joseph' - Jonathan Stavsky3 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 Bigliazzi5 The itinerant healer as a stage role: its origins in religious drama - M. A. Katritzky6 Citing scripture in later medieval and early modern English morality drama - Cathy Shrank7 Religious violence and dramatic innovation in the Tudor interlude: John Heywood's The Pardoner and the Friar - Greg Walker8 Elizabethan biblical drama - Paul Whitfield White Part III: Early modern drama 9 Protestant place, Protestant props in the plays of Nicholas Grimald- Elisabeth Dutton10 Staging prophecy: A Looking Glass for London and the Book of Jonah- Hannibal Hamlin11 Early modern dramatic martyrdom- Monika Fludernik12 '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 GoodblattIndex...

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• Authors: Chanita Von Contzen Goodblatt, Eva Goodblatt Von Contzen
• Assisted by: Eva von Contzen (Editor), Chanita Goodblatt (Editor), Goodblatt Chanita (Editor), David Matthews (Editor), Eva von Contzen (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781526131591
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3159-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / History & Culture, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, c 1154 to c 1485 (Plantagenet and Angevin period), Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics