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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"croxton play of the sacrament"”.
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A Reevaluation of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament
<p>The purpose of this paper, then, is to reevaluate the Play of the Sacrament using the text to answer criticism which has been generally unfavorable. The majority of critics find a lack of moral purpose in the play due to an abundance of the grotesque. However, the presence of so much Christian …
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Economic and Spiritual Conflict in Medieval East Anglian Drama
… all extant Middle English morality and miracle play-texts can be traced to one place and time: East Anglia in the fifteenth century. This confluence of texts has put scholarship on East Anglian drama in a unique position: on the one hand, scholarship on the surviving plays is regionally …
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Using Animals: the use of non-human animals from the material to the metaphorical, 1100-1380
This thesis applies Animal Studies theory to a selection of texts from medieval literature and visual culture. In particular, it is concerned with the ways that the ‘fact of interaction’ impacts on an evaluation of non–human animal (NHA) and human–animal relationships. The thesis re–examines a …