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Early Drama, Art, and Music

2016

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Mary Of Nemmegen: The Ca. 1518 Translation And The Middle Dutch Analogue, Mariken Van Nieumeghen, Clifford Davidson, Ton J. Broos, Martin Walsh Jul 2016

Mary Of Nemmegen: The Ca. 1518 Translation And The Middle Dutch Analogue, Mariken Van Nieumeghen, Clifford Davidson, Ton J. Broos, Martin Walsh

Early Drama, Art, and Music

Mary of Nemmegen, a prose condensation in English of the Middle Dutch play Mariken van Nieumeghen, is an important example of the literature that was imported from Holland in the early part of the sixteenth century - literature that helped to establish an English taste for narrative prose fiction. It also may be compared to Everyman, described as a treatise "in the manner of a moral play." Mary of Nemmegen is an analogue of the Faustus story, in which a person makes an agreement with the devil; hence the work deserves to be made available as background …


The Coventry Mysteries And Shakespeare's Histories, Clifford Davidson Jan 2016

The Coventry Mysteries And Shakespeare's Histories, Clifford Davidson

Early Drama, Art, and Music

This study is a revision of a paper read at the Shakespeare Institute at Wheaton College and subsequently published in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy: Some Christian Features, edited by Beatrice Batson (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1989), 3-25.