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Book SynopsisAgainst 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.
Trade ReviewReview by Roser López Cruz, King's College London, in: Anuario Lope de Vega, 2018, pp. 451-457. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/anuariolopedevega.287
Table of ContentsPeter Happé Introduction Clifford Davidson Memory and Remembering: Sacred History and the York Plays Margaret Rogerson Audience responses and the York Corpus Christi Play Philip Butterworth The Bible and the Towneley Plays of Isaac and Iacob Diana Wyatt Play Titles without Play Texts: What can they tell us, and how? An Investigation of the Evidence for the Beverley Corpus Christi Play Roberta Mullini The Norwich Grocers’ Play(s) (1533, 1565): Development and Changes in the Representation of Man’s Fall Katie Normington “Have here a Drink full good”: A Comparative Analysis of Staging Temptation in the Newcastle Noah Play Peter Happé Staging the Resurrection Charlotte Steenbrugge Preaching Penance on the Stage in Late Medieval England: The Case of John the Baptist David Bevington Staging and Liturgy in The Croxton Play of the Sacrament Bob Godfrey Herod’s Reputation and the Killing of the Children: Some Theatrical Consequences Philip Crispin Passion Play: Staging York’s The Conspiracy and Christ before Annas and Caiaphas James McBain “Alle out of hir self”: Mary, Effective Piety and the N-Town Crucifixion Sarah Carpenter Performing the Scriptures: Biblical Drama after the Reformation Greg Walker Blurred Lines? Religion, Reform, and Reformation in Sir David Lyndsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis Elisabeth Dutton and Stephanie Allen Seeing and Recognizing in the Sacred and New: The Latin Scriptural Plays of Nicholas Grimald Garrett P. J. Epp “Be ye thus trowing”: Medieval Drama and Make-Belief
