Memory And Remembering: Sacred History And The York Plays, Clifford Davidson
Apr 2016
Memory And Remembering: Sacred History And The York Plays, Clifford Davidson
Clifford Davidson
Against a background which included revolutionary changes in religious belief, extensive enlargement of dramatic styles and the technological innovation of printing, this collection of essays about biblical drama offers innovative approaches to text and performance, while reviewing some well-established critical issues. The Bible in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries appears in a complex of roles in relation to the drama: as an authority and centre of belief, a place of controversy, an emotional experience and, at times, a weapon. This collection brings into focus the new biblical learning, including the re-editing of biblical texts, as well as classical influences, and …
Dux Moraud: Criminality And Salvation In An East Anglian Play, Clifford Davidson
Dec 2008
Dux Moraud: Criminality And Salvation In An East Anglian Play, Clifford Davidson
Clifford Davidson
No abstract available.
The Bodley Christ’S Burial And Christ’S Resurrection: Vernacular Dramas For Good Friday And Easter, Clifford Davidson
Dec 2002
The Bodley Christ’S Burial And Christ’S Resurrection: Vernacular Dramas For Good Friday And Easter, Clifford Davidson
Clifford Davidson
Reprint in Festivals and Plays, 169–85.
Sacred Blood And The Late Medieval Stage, Clifford Davidson
Dec 1996
Sacred Blood And The Late Medieval Stage, Clifford Davidson
Clifford Davidson
Rpt. in History, Religion, and Violence, pp. 180-204.
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.
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 …
