The Theater of Devotion
Subtitle: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780226291024
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; Christianity; Cultural studies; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; English Drama To 1500; Literature And Society; Drama; Plays / Drama; English; Literary Criticism; Plays; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Medieval; Drama / British & Irish; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval
First sentence: This book began as a book about late medieval habits of mind and the English mystery plays, but it soon became a book laboring with increasing vexation to connect the ceremonial spirituality and Marian iconography of the East Anglian N-Town cycle (long known by the misnomer inscribed in the manuscript by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton's librarian, Ludus Coventriae) with the late medieval cycles of biblical plays from York, Wakefield, and Chester.