Staging scripture : biblical drama, 1350-1600 / / edited by Peter Happé, Wim Hüsken.

Against a background which included revolutionary changes in religious belief, extensive enlargement of dramatic styles and the technological innovation of printing, this collection of essays about biblical drama offers innovative approaches to text and performance, while reviewing some well-establi...

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Superior document:Ludus, Volume 14
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Ludus ; Volume 14.
Physical Description:1 online resource (422 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Peter Happé
  • 1 Performing the Scriptures: Biblical Drama after the Reformation / Sarah Carpenter
  • 2 Blurred Lines? Religion, Reform, and Reformation in Sir David Lyndsay’s / Greg Walker
  • 3 Play Titles without Play Texts: What Can They Tell Us, and How? An Investigation of the Evidence for the Beverley Corpus Christi Play / Diana Wyatt
  • 4 The Bible and the Towneley Plays of Isaac and Iacob  / Philip Butterworth
  • 5 The Norwich Grocers’ Play(s) (1533, 1565): Development and Changes in the Representation of Man’s Fall / Roberta Mullini
  • 6 Preaching Penance on the Stage in Late Medieval England: The Case of John the Baptist / Charlotte Steenbrugge
  • 7 “Have here a Drink full good”: A Comparative Analysis of Staging Temptation in the Newcastle Noah Play / Katie Normington
  • 8 Dramatizing the Resurrection / Peter Happé
  • 9 Seeing and Recognizing in the Sacred and New: The Latin Scriptural Plays of Nicholas Grimald / Elisabeth Dutton and Stephanie Allen
  • 10 Staging and Liturgy in The Croxton Play of the Sacrament  / David Bevington
  • 11 Herod’s Reputation and the Killing of the Children: Some Theatrical Consequences / Bob Godfrey
  • 12 Passion Play: Staging York’s The Conspiracy and Christ before Annas and Caiaphas  / Philip Crispin
  • 13 “Alle out of hir self”: Mary, Effective Piety and the N-Town Crucifixion  / James McBain
  • 14 Memory and Remembering: Sacred History and the York Plays / Clifford Davidson
  • 15 Audience Responses and the York Corpus Christi Play / Margaret Rogerson
  • 16 “Be ye thus trowing”: Medieval Drama and Make-Belief / Garrett P.J. Epp
  • Index / Peter Happé and Wim Hüsken.