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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Mystery Plays"”.

  1. Realism in the Medieval Mystery Plays

    Barta de, Mary Antoinette N.D.Creighton University1933

    … study and analysis of some of the medieval mystery plays—remnants of the York, Townley, Coventry, and Chester Cycles—will inevitably show that realism was very prevalent in the literature of the fourteenth century. Of course Langland's Piers Plowman and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are even …

    creighton Repository record

  2. The Grotesque in the York Mystery Plays

    Ryan, Dennis M.2016

    loyola-thes Repository record

  3. Orality in Medieval Drama

    Einmahl, ChristianeTechnische Universität Dresden

    … insgesamt 46 Stücke der spätmittelenglischen Mystery Plays, die biblische Episoden von der Erschaffung der Welt bis zum Jüngsten Gericht (komisch) in Szene setzen. Neben der quantitativen und qualitativen Analyse von acht nähesprachlichen Merkmalen (u. a. Anredepronomina, Fragen, …

    qucosa-diss

  4. A poetics of uncertainty: a chorographic survey of the life of John Trevisa and the site of Glasney College, Cornwall, mediated through locative arts practice

    Diggle, Valerie Ann2017

    … production of the Ordinalia, a cycle of medieval mystery plays written uniquely in Kernowek. This thesis considers the vocabulary that Trevisa innovated, such as concept, fiction, virtual, as crucial to research writing but calls for a new vocabulary to articulate the feminised, labile research …

    arts-london Repository record

  5. Flesh and spirit onstage: chronotopes of performance in medieval English theatre

    Cavenaugh, Gregory LeeSpeech Communication2022

    … contestation and engagement. The communal mystery plays performed on Corpus Christi day in medieval England created a space and time for communicative bodies to tell shared narratives in a ritual effort to strengthen, purify, and heal souls. Performance within the transubstantial chronotope …

    lsu-thes Repository record

  6. Love and Drede: Religious Fear in Middle English

    Robinson, Arabella Mary MilbankUniversity of Cambridge2019

    … episodes. The N-Town, Chester, Towneley and York plays articulate complex and variant theological ideas about Christ’s fearful affectivity as a site of imitation and participation for the medieval layperson. Chapter Four is a reading of Piers Plowman that argues a right fear is essential to …

    cambridge Repository record