Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama
Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama
by Heather Hill-Vásquez and Heather Hill-Vásquez
Catholic University of America Press, 2007 Cloth: 978-0-8132-1497-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8132-1611-9 Library of Congress Classification PR643.M5H55 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 822.05160901
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Offering a unique historical perspective to the study of medieval English drama, Heather Hill-Vásquez in Sacred Players argues that different treatments of audience and performance in the early drama indicate that the performance life of the drama may have continued well beyond its traditional placement in medieval history and into the Reformation and Renaissance eras.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Reforming Response: Protestant Adaptations
1. Modeling Response in the Chester Cycle
2. Correcting Response in the Digby Conversion of Saint Paul
Part II. Sanctifying Response: The Church and the "Real Presence"
3. Accessing the Divine in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament
4. Devotional Response and Responsibility in the York Cycle
Part III. Gendering Response: Christ's Body and God's Word
5. Incarnational Belief and Gender in the Digby Killing of the Children
6. Reforming Religious Performance: "Feminine" Response and "Catholic" Behavior
Afterword
Bibliography
Notes
Index