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Saints and the Audience in Middle English Biblical Drama /

"The study of saints in medieval biblical drama has often been neglected in favour of the study of sinners - the villains and the rogues. In Saints and the Audience in Middle English Biblical Drama, Chester N. Scoville takes a different tack, examining the language and rhetoric of saintly chara...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scoville, Chester N. (Chester Norman), 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"The study of saints in medieval biblical drama has often been neglected in favour of the study of sinners - the villains and the rogues. In Saints and the Audience in Middle English Biblical Drama, Chester N. Scoville takes a different tack, examining the language and rhetoric of saintly characters in Middle English biblical plays. Scoville contends that the plays focus attention on the interaction between the divine realm and the human realm, that the saintly characters are key to seeing this interaction, and that the overall function of the plays is to instill in the audience a shared point of view defined both by doctrine and by experience."--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9781442679542