Medieval and Renaissance Drama in EnglandJohn Leeds Barroll, Susan P. Cerasano Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies as well as book reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realized in its drama exclusive of Shakespeare. |
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... Mary Washington College , is the author of The Early Art of the West Riding of Yorkshire and various articles on medieval and Renaissance English drama . She presently is coediting the West Riding , Yorkshire volumes for the Records of ...
... Mary Washington College , is the author of The Early Art of the West Riding of Yorkshire and various articles on medieval and Renaissance English drama . She presently is coediting the West Riding , Yorkshire volumes for the Records of ...
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... Mary " is one of the few New Testament apocrypha - based episodes dramatized in each of the four major surviving cycles ; thus it provides a unique opportunity to compare various renderings of a scene unconstrained by rigid doc- trinal ...
... Mary " is one of the few New Testament apocrypha - based episodes dramatized in each of the four major surviving cycles ; thus it provides a unique opportunity to compare various renderings of a scene unconstrained by rigid doc- trinal ...
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... Mary does not explain or even speak until an angel has revealed the mir- acle . " Shallowness of characterization ( and lack of dramatic interplay between characters ) has often been cited as a general weakness of the Chester plays ...
... Mary does not explain or even speak until an angel has revealed the mir- acle . " Shallowness of characterization ( and lack of dramatic interplay between characters ) has often been cited as a general weakness of the Chester plays ...
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... Mary to her husband ( following the Salutation scene ) , Joseph's imme- diate response is to launch into a stock " cuckold's lament " which , like the perennial " Herod's boast , " invites the audience to indulge in a healthy bit of ...
... Mary to her husband ( following the Salutation scene ) , Joseph's imme- diate response is to launch into a stock " cuckold's lament " which , like the perennial " Herod's boast , " invites the audience to indulge in a healthy bit of ...
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... Mary has been unfaithful to him , he nonetheless loves her and still feels bound by loyalty to her . He is unwilling ... Mary's pregnancy was discovered , " Joseph , be- ing a just man and unwilling to put her to shame , resolved to ...
... Mary has been unfaithful to him , he nonetheless loves her and still feels bound by loyalty to her . He is unwilling ... Mary's pregnancy was discovered , " Joseph , be- ing a just man and unwilling to put her to shame , resolved to ...
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