Enacting the Bible in medieval and early modern drama (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Contzen, Eva von; Goodblatt, Chanita

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. Aspects under scrutiny include dramatic traditions, confessional and religious rites, dogmas and debates, conceptualisations of performance, and audience response. The contributors stress the co-presence of biblical and contemporary concerns in the periods under discussion, conceiving of biblical drama as a central participant in the dynamic struggle to both interpret and translate the Bible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526131614
• Artikelnr.: 58801419

Autorenporträt

Chanita Goodblatt is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Eva von Contzen is Junior Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

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 Besserman 2 Typology, community, and stagecraft in
the N-town 'Trial of Mary and Joseph' - Jonathan Stavsky 3 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 Bigliazzi 5 The
itinerant healer as a stage role: its origins in religious drama - M. A.
Katritzky 6 Citing scripture in later medieval and early modern English
morality drama - Cathy Shrank 7 Religious violence and dramatic innovation
in the Tudor interlude: John Heywood's The Pardoner and the Friar - Greg
Walker 8 Elizabethan biblical drama - Paul Whitfield White Part III: Early
modern drama 9 Protestant place, Protestant props in the plays of Nicholas
Grimald- Elisabeth Dutton 10 Staging prophecy: A Looking Glass for London
and the Book of Jonah- Hannibal Hamlin 11 Early modern dramatic martyrdom-
Monika Fludernik 12 '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
Goodblatt Index