Lynette Muir

Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama

The Plays and Their Legacy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed study of the stories dramatised in Europe before 1500.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9780521153454
• ISBN-10: 052115345X
• Artikelnr.: 31199921

Autorenporträt

Lynette R. Muir was formerly Reader in French at the University of Leeds.

Inhaltsangabe

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.