Defining acts
Subtitle: drama and the politics of interpretation in late medieval England
By: Ruth Nisse.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism; Political plays, English -- History and criticism; Mysteries and miracle-plays, English -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500; Theater -- Political aspects -- England -- History -- To 1500; Social problems in literature
Description: Exploring the ways in which ideas previously limited to academic discourse became elements of public theatrical performances, this text looks at medieval literature and how plays often reflected cultural history as well as literary criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Drama after Chaucer : The miller's tale and the failures of representation; title: Staged interpretations : civic rhetoric and Lollard politics in the York plays; title: Naked visions; title: Labor's end : the Wakefield Master's poor theater; title: Into exiled hands : Jewish exegesis and urban identity in The Croxton play of the sacrament; title: Life in motion : wisdom's devotional politics.