The Circulation of Power in Medieval Biblical Drama: Theaters of Authority

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Author(s): Robert S. Sturges (auth.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2015

Language: English
Tags: Science, general

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: Power, History, Drama....Pages 1-19
The Body: Bare Life in the Passion Plays....Pages 21-31
Things: Objects and Agency in the Trial and Crucifixion Plays....Pages 33-50
Gender/Politics: Motherhood in the Innocents Plays and the Planctus Mariae....Pages 51-79
Economics: Money, Labor, and Ideology in Four Towneley Plays....Pages 81-96
Law: Obligation and Legal Parody in the Cain and Abel Plays....Pages 97-117
Conclusion: The Authority of the Audience....Pages 119-140
Back Matter....Pages 141-230