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Title Staging scripture : biblical drama, 1350-1600 / edited by Peter Happé, Wim Hüsken
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 414 pages)
Series Ludus : medieval and early Renaissance theatre and drama, 1385-0393 ; volume 14
Ludus ; 14.
Contents List of Figures; Introduction; Peter Happé; Chapter 1; Performing the Scriptures: Biblical Drama after the Reformation; Sarah Carpenter; Chapter 2; Blurred Lines? Religion, Reform, and Reformation in Sir David Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis; Greg Walker; Chapter 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; Chapter 4; The Bible and the Towneley Plays of Isaac and Iacob; Philip Butterworth; Chapter 5
The Norwich Grocers' Play(s) (1533, 1565): Development and Changes in the Representation of Man's FallRoberta Mullini; Chapter 6; Preaching Penance on the Stage in Late Medieval England: The Case of John the Baptist; Charlotte Steenbrugge; Chapter 7; "Have here a Drink full good": A Comparative Analysis of Staging Temptation in the Newcastle Noah Play; Katie Normington; Chapter 8; Dramatizing the Resurrection; Peter Happé; Chapter 9; Seeing and Recognizing in the Sacred and New: The Latin Scriptural Plays of Nicholas Grimald; Elisabeth Dutton and Stephanie Allen; Chapter 10
Staging and Liturgy in The Croxton Play of the SacramentDavid Bevington; Chapter 11; Herod's Reputation and the Killing of the Children: Some Theatrical Consequences; Bob Godfrey; Chapter 12; Passion Play: Staging York's The Conspiracy and Christ before Annas and Caiaphas; Philip Crispin; Chapter 13; "Alle out of hir self": Mary, Effective Piety and the N-Town Crucifixion; James McBain; Chapter 14; Memory and Remembering: Sacred History and the York Plays; Clifford Davidson; Chapter 15; Audience Responses and the York Corpus Christi Play; Margaret Rogerson; Chapter 16
"Be ye thus trowing": Medieval Drama and Make-BeliefGarrett P.J. Epp; Index
Summary 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-established critical issues. The Bible in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries appears in a complex of roles in relation to the drama: as an authority and centre of belief, a place of controversy, an emotional experience and, at times, a weapon. This collection brings into focus the new biblical learning, including the re-editing of biblical texts, as well as classical influences, and it gives a unique view of the relationship between the Bible and the drama at a critical time for both. Contributors are: Stephanie Allen, David Bevington, Philip Butterworth, Sarah Carpenter, Philip Crispin, Clifford Davidson, Elisabeth Dutton, Garrett P. J. Epp, Bob Godfrey, Peter Happé, James McBain, Roberta Mullini, Katie Normington, Margaret Rogerson, Charlotte Steenbrugge, Greg Walker, and Diana Wyatt
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 08, 2016)
Subject Bible plays -- History and criticism
Religious drama -- History and criticism
Drama, Medieval -- History and criticism
Religious drama -- Presentation, etc.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
Bible plays
Drama, Medieval
Religious drama
Religious drama -- Presentation, etc.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Happé, Peter, editor
Hüsken, Wim N. M., editor
LC no. 2016015285
ISBN 9004313958
9789004313958