The circulation of power in medieval Biblical drama
Subtitle: theaters of authority
By: Robert S. Sturges
Series: The new Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230115781
Subjects: Christian drama, English (Middle); Power (Social sciences) in literature; English drama; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; History and criticism; Medieval Drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; Religious drama; RELIGION / Biblical Studies / History & Culture
Description: "This book investigates various modes of resistance to authority found in medieval Biblical drama. It concerns the ways in which the dissemination of power throughout culture is represented in these plays: the human body, objects, gender, politics, economics, law, and theater itself, as well as religion, are all registers in which such resistance may be enacted"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction: Power, History, Drama 2. The Body: Bare Life in the Passion Plays 3. Things: Objects and Agency in the Trial and Crucifixion Plays 4. Gender/Politics: Resistant Motherhood in the Innocents Plays and the Planctus Mariae 5. Economics: Money, Labor, and Ideology in the Wakefield Master's Plays 6. Law: Obligation and Legal Parody in the Cain and Abel Plays 7. Theater: Audience and Authority.