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Ruth Nisse
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Notre Dame Pr
Publication date
January 15, 2005
Pages
226
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780268036027
ISBN-10
0268036020
Dimensions
0.75 by 6 by 8.75 in.
Weight
0.80 lbs.
Original list price
$23.00
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Defining Acts considers how the surviving English plays of the fifteenth century represent and transform competing late-medieval practices of interpretation. These works take up a series of contests over who could legitimately determine the meaning of texts - men or women, clerics or laity, rulers or subjects, Christians or Jews - and stage these texts for audiences far beyond their original academic contexts. of textual exegesis into spatial models and politics. She situates medieval drama both in its vernacular literary setting, as a genre composed against the same cultural background as The Canterbury Tales and Piers Plowman, and in its performances, which negotiate a range of current social and political issues. Defining Acts begins with an introductory chapter that reveals the dangers and pleasures of theatrical representation in a reading of Chaucer's antic Miller's Tale and the violently anti-theatrical Wycliffite Treatise of Miracle Playing. Subsequent chapters engage problems such as the clash between civic rule and the authority of women's visionary experiences in the York Plays; competing ideas of labor and poverty in the Towneley Plays; and theories of Jewish exegesis that continue to haunt Christian and national understandings of history in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament. ways in which ideas previously limited to academic discourse become elements of public theatrical performances, available to new audiences. Her pathbreaking approach to the study of medieval drama makes this book required reading for scholars and students alike.
Editions
Hardcover
from Univ of Notre Dame Pr (April 30, 2005)
9780268036010 | details & prices | 226 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.02 lbs | List price $40.00
Paperback
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from Univ of Notre Dame Pr (January 15, 2005)
9780268036027 | details & prices | 226 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $23.00
About: Defining Acts considers how the surviving English plays of the fifteenth century represent and transform competing late-medieval practices of interpretation.
About: Defining Acts considers how the surviving English plays of the fifteenth century represent and transform competing late-medieval practices of interpretation.
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