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Deliver Us From Evil: Essays On Symbolic Engagement In Early Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The focus of this book is on the reality of evil for medieval and Renaissance dramatists and their audiences. What propels the work beyond similar critiques is the author's insistence that evil is not an outmoded feature of past societies, but an active ingredient of contemporary life. Davidson fast forwards from distant times once described as "calamitous" to a century of far more violence and atrocity - our own twentieth and its overflow. While drawing on Kant to illuminate the kinds of evil portrayed in early drama through Marlowe and Shakespeare, Davidson refers to contemporary events that scream for an …

The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson, Pamela King

Clifford Davidson

Technology, Guilds, And Early English Drama, Edam Monograph Series 23, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

This book is designed to open up a broader scope of study which calls attention to both social organization and material culture as integrally related to the civic drama of England in cities such as Coventry, York and Chester.

Fools And Folly, Edam Monograph Series 22, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The Fool in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period was either a person who capitalized on his natural deficiencies, which were then considered amusing, or a professional entertainer the artificial Fool who specialized in clowning. His distinctive clothing and bauble are known to us through numerous Psalter illustrations where he is shown in connection with Psalm 52, which asserts that The fool has said in his heart there is no God. Attitudes toward the Fool varied, but his place was to become assured on stage, where his role is best known to us through the plays of Shakespeare. The …

Emblem, Iconography, And Drama, Clifford Davidson, John Stroupe, Luis Emblem, Iconography, And Drama

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. of Comparative Drama, 29, No. 1 (Spring 1995).

The Iconography Of Heaven, Edam Monograph Series 21, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Includes the following contributions: “Saints and Angels” (pp. 1-39), “Heaven’s Fragrance” (pp. 110-27), and (with J. T. Rhodes) “The Garden of Paradise” (pp. 69-109).

Early And Traditional Drama: Africa, Asia, And The New World, Clifford Davidson, John Stroupe

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. of Comparative Drama, 28, No. 1 (Spring 1994).

Illustrations Of The Stage And Acting In England To 1580, Edam Monograph Series 16, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

This richly illustrated book surveys representations of the stage and acting from manuscript illuminations, stained glass, sculpture, woodcarving, wall paintings and the woodcuts that appear in playbooks produced by the first English printers.

Saints In Play: English Theatre And Saints’ Lives, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rev. Of Alexandra F. Johnston, Ed., Editing Early English Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson