Saints and the Audience in Middle English Biblical Drama

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  • Saints and the Audience in Middle English Biblical Drama Book Detail

  • Author : Chester Norman Scoville
  • Release Date : 2004-01-01
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 166
  • ISBN 13 : 9780802089441
  • File Size : 34,34 MB
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Saints and the Audience in Middle English Biblical Drama by Chester Norman Scoville PDF Summary

Book Description: Saints and heroes were often central characters in Middle English biblical plays, although scholarship has tended to focus more on the villainous than the virtuous. In this study, Chester Scoville examines how medieval playwrights portrayed saints and how they used them to convey feelings of social virtue, devotion, compassion and community in the audience. Although looking also at performance practices, costume, gesture and scenert, the main emphasis is on language and rhetoric in biblical drama and the position of saints lying between the earthly and ultimate community. Four `role models' are jeld up for close examination: Thomas the Doubter, Mary Magdalene, Jospeh and Paul.

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