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| Author | : Theresa Coletti |
| Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2018-02-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1580442862 |
The Digby Play of Mary Magdalene is a rare, surviving example of the Middle English saint play. It provides a window on the deep embedding of biblical drama and performance in late medieval devotional practices, social aspiration and critique, and religious discourses. Fully annotated and extensively glossed, this edition adds to the METS Drama series an essential resource for the study of late medieval English religious drama.
| Author | : Theresa Coletti |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 359 |
| Release | : 2004-07-08 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0812238001 |
"A broad and deep analysis of Mary Magdalene's prominence through overlapping discourses of late medieval English culture. . . . An elegantly written and valuable resource on theater, gender, and religion."—Baylor Journal of Theater and Performance
| Author | : Chester N. Scoville |
| Publisher | : Broadview Press |
| Total Pages | : 122 |
| Release | : 2017-12-15 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1770486682 |
Few medieval plays in English have attracted as much twenty-first-century interest as the Digby Mary Magdalene, an early-fifteenth-century drama that, as Chester Scoville puts it, is “probably the most spectacular of the late medieval English plays.” This new edition presents a modernized text of the play, with extensive annotation (both marginal glosses and explanatory footnotes), an insightful introduction, and a helpful selection of background contextual materials.
| Author | : Christina M. Fitzgerald |
| Publisher | : Broadview Press |
| Total Pages | : 595 |
| Release | : 2012-12-05 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1554810566 |
The past generation has been an extraordinarily active one in medieval drama scholarship; our appreciation of the range of medieval drama has been significantly broadened, and our understanding of certain medieval genres—most notably, biblical drama—has been fundamentally altered. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has been widely praised for the degree to which it has taken this scholarship into account in its selection of and presentation of medieval plays. Now Broadview launches a new anthology that takes those plays as its base while expanding very substantially beyond them to represent the full range of drama in English (and, where strong connections exist, in French, Latin, Cornish, and Welsh as well) through to 1576. In all, over forty plays are included. Each work has been fully annotated and is prefaced by a substantial introduction. In many cases the language is to some extent modernized in order to make the plays more accessible to readers today.
| Author | : Susan Haskins |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 546 |
| Release | : 2011-09-30 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1446499421 |
A dramatic, thought-provoking portrait of one of the most compelling figures in early Christianity which explores two thousand years of history, art, and literature to provide a close-up look at Mary Magdalen and her significance in religious and cultural thought.
| Author | : Peter Loewen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2014-03-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1135081921 |
This innovative and multidisciplinary collection visits representations and interpretations of Mary Magdalene in the medieval and early modern periods, questioning major scholarly assumptions behind the examination of female saints and their depictions in medieval artworks, literature, and music. Mary Magdalene’s many and various characterizations from reformed prostitute to conversion-figure to devotee of Christ to "apostle to the apostles" to spiritual advisor to the Prince of Marseilles to hermit in the desert, to list just a few examples, mean that the many conflicted representations of Mary Magdalene apply to a staggering variety of cultural material, including art, liturgy, music, literature, theology, hagiography, and the historical record. Furthermore, Mary Magdalene has grown into an extremely popular and controversial figure due to recent books and movies concerning her, and due to a groundswell of general speculation concerning her relationship to Jesus: was she his acquaintance, follower, companion, wife, family-member, or lover? This volume employs a broad spectrum of theoretical methodologies in order to present poststructuralist, postcolonial, postmodernist, hagiographic, and feminist readings of the figure of Mary Magdalene, addressing and interrogating her conflicting roles and the precise relationship between her sacred and secular representations.
| Author | : Anonymous |
| Publisher | : Franklin Classics |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2018-10-07 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780341751014 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
| Author | : John C. Coldewey |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 2016-07-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1135778825 |
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : David Scott Kastan |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 2656 |
| Release | : 2006-03-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0199725314 |
From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl
| Author | : Clifford Davidson |
| Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
| Total Pages | : 616 |
| Release | : 2011-10-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1580444539 |
The feast of Corpus Christi, celebrated annually on Thursday after Trinity Sunday, was devoted to the Eucharist, and the normal practice was to have solemn processions through the city with the Host, the consecrated wafer that was believed to have been transformed into the true body and blood of Jesus. In this way the "cultus Dei" thus celebrated allowed the people to venerate the Eucharistic bread in order that they might be stimulated to devotion and brought symbolically, even mystically into a relationship with the central moments of salvation history. Perhaps it is logical, therefore, that pageants and plays were introduced in order to access yet another way of visualizing and participating in those events. Thus the "invisible things" of the divine order "from the creation of the world" might be displayed. The York Corpus Christi Plays, contained in London, British Library, MS. Add. 35290 and comprising more than thirteen thousand lines of verse, actually represent a unique survival of medieval theater. They form the only complete play cycle verifiably associated with the feast of Corpus Christi that is extant and was performed at a specific location in England.
