Hill-Vásquez, Heather.

Sacred players the politics of response in the Middle English religious drama / [electronic resource] : Heather Hill-Vásquez. - Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2007. - 1 online resource (vii, 229 p.)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-223) and index.

Reforming response: Protestant adaptations. Modeling response in the Chester cycle ; Correcting response in the Digby Conversion of Saint Paul -- Sanctifying response: the church and the "real presence". Accessing the divine in the Croxton Play of the sacrament ; Devotional response and responsibility in the York cycle -- Gendering response: Christ's body and God's word. Incarnational belief and gender in the Digby Killing of the children ; Reforming religious performance: "feminine" response and "Catholic" behavior.

9780813216119 (electronic bk.) 0813216117 (electronic bk.)


Geschichte


Mysteries and miracle-plays, English--History and criticism.
English drama--History and criticism.--To 1500
Christianity and literature--History--England--To 1500.
Christian drama, English (Middle)--History and criticism.
Theater--History--England--Medieval, 500-1500.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Cycles (Literature)
Geistliches Drama.
Aufführung.
Publikum.
DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh


Mittelenglisch.


Electronic books.

PR643.M5 / H55 2007eb

822/.05160901