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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Castle of Perseverance"”.
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…And Banish All the World: A Comparison of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I and the Morality Play The Castle of Perseverance
… class might analyze the human body, as part of the morality tradition, is the question. A heart is not a body, a lung is not a body, a leg is not a body - but put them together, heart, lung and leg - and the sum of those and all the other parts is a body. Just so, there are parts of the body …
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Models of Confession: Penitential Writing in Late Medieval England
<p>This project examines the medieval practice of the sacrament of penance and the innovative ways in which medieval literature engaged with the pastoral project of the Catholic church to provide the penitent with a way to deal with sin. Drawing from medieval literature, religious writing and …
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Need Not Necessity: Purgatorial Torment and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
Seeking to expand on the work of Jacque Le Goff in The Birth of Purgatory, this dissertation examines Purgatory and purgatorial suffering on the early modern stage in Britain. Le Goff asserts in The Birth of Purgatory that "Purgatory, though a prominent if elusive feature of Christian thinking …
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Performing piety: preachers and players in East Anglia, 1400-1520
… East Anglia, arguing that the mutual use of thematic divisions and exempla (moral tales) evinces the reciprocal interaction of preacher and playwright. By focusing on these common rhetorical strategies, I stress the medieval play’s confluence with preaching’s form, rejecting the critical …