Lynn Forest-Hill

Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama

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Produktbeschreibung

This title was first published in 2000: Insults, abuse, oaths, scatological and bawdy language - these form the subject of Lynn Forest-Hill's study on "bad" language in the late Middle Ages. She demonstrates how, in mediaeval mystery plays and morality plays, dramatists used outrageous language with great sophistication and subtlety to create characterizations and define characters' moral status, to reflect on social conditions, to condemn social evils, and to comment upon sensitive cultural, political and religious topics of the 16th century.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Revivals
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 150mm x 216mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9781138718692
• ISBN-10: 1138718696
• Artikelnr.: 58313556

Autorenporträt

Lynn Forest-Hill,

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Preface vii Introduction 1 Language law and drama 2 Transgressive
language and characterization 3 Social comment, religious dissent, and
audience response 50 in the biblical plays 4 Transgressive language in
three fifteenth-century morality plays 5 Magnyfycence: signs of change in
the sixteenth century 6 The Play of the Weather, entertainment and
religious anxiety 7 King Johan: the language of virtue and reformation