Staging Scripture
Biblical Drama, 1350-1600
Published on 4. May 2016
Book
Hardback
422 pages
978-90-04-31394-1 (ISBN)
Description
Against 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 Happe, James McBain, Roberta Mullini, Katie Normington, Margaret Rogerson, Charlotte Steenbrugge, Greg Walker, and Diana Wyatt.
Contributors are: Stephanie Allen, David Bevington, Philip Butterworth, Sarah Carpenter, Philip Crispin, Clifford Davidson, Elisabeth Dutton, Garrett P. J. Epp, Bob Godfrey, Peter Happe, James McBain, Roberta Mullini, Katie Normington, Margaret Rogerson, Charlotte Steenbrugge, Greg Walker, and Diana Wyatt.
Reviews / Votes
Review by Roser Lopez Cruz, King's College London, in: Anuario Lope de Vega, 2018, pp. 451-457. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/anuariolopedevega.287More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
13 farbige Abbildungen
13 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
729 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-31394-1 (9789004313941)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Peter Happe, Ph.D. (1966), is a retired independent scholar and Visiting Fellow for English at the University of Southampton. His extensive list of publications includes an edition of the complete plays of John Bale.
Wim Huesken, Ph.D. (1987), is employed as a consultant at the city of Mechelen (Belgium). He specializes in Dutch theatre and drama. In 2005, he published a new edition of the complete plays of the Bruges playwright, Cornelis Everaert.
Wim Huesken, Ph.D. (1987), is employed as a consultant at the city of Mechelen (Belgium). He specializes in Dutch theatre and drama. In 2005, he published a new edition of the complete plays of the Bruges playwright, Cornelis Everaert.
Content
Peter Happe
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 Happe
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
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 Happe
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