ISBN:
9781526146854
,
9781526146878
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 234 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
1. published
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Manchester medieval literature and culture 36
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Black, Daisy Play time
DDC:
822.051609
Keywords:
Christian drama, English (Middle) History and criticism
;
Antisemitism in literature
;
Sex in literature
;
Bible plays History and criticism
;
Bible plays
;
Antisemitism in literature
;
Christian drama, English (Middle)
;
Sex in literature
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Mittelenglisch
;
Biblisches Drama
;
Zeit
;
Geschlecht
;
Antisemitismus
Abstract:
This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama. It charts conflicts staged between dramatic personae in plays that represent theological transitions, including the Incarnation, Flood, Nativity and Bethlehem slaughter. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with what it asserted was a superseded Jewish past, it asks how models of supersession and typology are subverted when placed in dramatic dialogue with characters who experience time differently. The book employs theories of gender, performance, anti-Semitism, queer theory and periodisation to complicate readings of early theatre’s biblical matriarchs and patriarchs. Dealing with frequently taught plays as well as less familiar material, the book is essential reading for specialist, undergraduate and postgraduate researchers working on medieval performance, gender and queer studies, Jewish-Christian studies and time
Note:
Includes bibliography (pages 207-228) and index
DOI:
10.7765/9781526146878
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