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Positional Symbolism And Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1990

Positional Symbolism And Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in Iconographic and Comparative Studies.


When Actors Play God, Clifford Davidson Dec 1989

When Actors Play God, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Revised version in On Tradition.


Medieval Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1989

Medieval Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Lost Coventry Drapers’ Play And Its Iconographic Context, Clifford Davidson Dec 1985

The Lost Coventry Drapers’ Play And Its Iconographic Context, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in part in revised form in The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, ed. King and Davidson.


Medieval Puppet Theater At Witney, Oxfordshire, And Pentecost Ceremony At St. Paul’S, London, Clifford Davidson Dec 1985

Medieval Puppet Theater At Witney, Oxfordshire, And Pentecost Ceremony At St. Paul’S, London, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Stage Gesture In Medieval Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1983

Stage Gesture In Medieval Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Women And Medieval Drama, Clifford Davidson Dec 1983

Women And Medieval Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Jest And Earnest: Comedy In The Work Of The Wakefield Master, Clifford Davidson Dec 1981

Jest And Earnest: Comedy In The Work Of The Wakefield Master, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Visual Arts And Drama, With Special Emphasis On The Lazarus Plays Of The Middle Ages, Clifford Davidson Dec 1980

The Visual Arts And Drama, With Special Emphasis On The Lazarus Plays Of The Middle Ages, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


From Tristia To Gaudium: Iconography And The York-Towneley Harrowing Of Hell, Clifford Davidson Dec 1976

From Tristia To Gaudium: Iconography And The York-Towneley Harrowing Of Hell, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Revised version rpt. in From Creation to Doom.


Staging The York Creation, And Fall Of Lucifer, Clifford Davidson, Nona Mason Dec 1975

Staging The York Creation, And Fall Of Lucifer, Clifford Davidson, Nona Mason

Clifford Davidson

No abstract provided.


Northern Spirituality And The Late Medieval Drama Of York, Clifford Davidson Dec 1975

Northern Spirituality And The Late Medieval Drama Of York, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in revised form in On Tradition.


The Realism Of The York Realist And The York Passion, Clifford Davidson Dec 1974

The Realism Of The York Realist And The York Passion, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in Medieval English Drama, ed. Peter Happé (London: Macmillan, 1984), pp. 101-17, and in revised form in From Creation to Doom.


After The Fall: Design In The Old Testament Plays In The York Cycle, Clifford Davidson Dec 1974

After The Fall: Design In The Old Testament Plays In The York Cycle, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Revision rpt. in From Creation to Doom.


Thomas Aquinas, The Feast Of Corpus Christi, And The English Cycle Plays, Clifford Davidson Dec 1973

Thomas Aquinas, The Feast Of Corpus Christi, And The English Cycle Plays, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


Civic Concern And Iconography In The York Passion, Clifford Davidson Dec 1973

Civic Concern And Iconography In The York Passion, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Revision rpt. in From Creation to Doom.


The End Of The World In Medieval Drama And Art, Clifford Davidson Dec 1971

The End Of The World In Medieval Drama And Art, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Digby Mary Magdalene And The Magdalene Cult Of The Middle Ages, Clifford Davidson Dec 1971

The Digby Mary Magdalene And The Magdalene Cult Of The Middle Ages, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.


The Unity Of The Wakefield Mactacio Abel, Clifford Davidson Dec 1966

The Unity Of The Wakefield Mactacio Abel, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Despite the renewal of interest in the Catholic vernacular drama of medieval England, critics generally have failed to understand the framework upon which the unity of the Wakefield Mactacio Abel (The Killing of Abel) rests. If, as I believe, the central issue in the play is the response of mankind to God's grace against the background of the whole of history, then those who would admire the play solely for its realism or for its farce are not properly responding to the drama. There are many who perhaps do find the theology implicit in medieval drama to be rather …