Defining Acts - Drama and the Politics of Interpretaion in Late Medieval England

Informationen zum Autor Ruth Nisse is associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Klappentext This study examines the social, political and theological issues that were brought to the late medieval stage. Examining plays, urban pageant cycles and travelling `miracles' and morality plays, dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, Ruth Nisse explores how these translated contemporary issues and especially vernacular theology through performance. Works such as Chaucer's "Miller's Tale," the York Passion Plays, the "Wakefield Master" plays and the Play of the Sacrament are discussed in detail. Zusammenfassung Defining Acts considers how the surviving English plays of the 15th century represent and transform competing late-medieval practices of interpretation. These works take up a series of contests over who could legitimately determine the meaning of texts.

Product details

• Authors: Nisse, Nisse Nisse, Ruth Nisse, Ruth Nisse
• Publisher: University Of Notre Dame Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2005
• EAN: 9780268036010
• ISBN: 978-0-268-03601-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages