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Signs Of Doomsday In Drama And Art, Clifford Davidson Dec 1999

Signs Of Doomsday In Drama And Art, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

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Prose, Verse, And Truth-Telling In The Thirteenth Century: An Essay On Form And Function In Selected Texts, Accompanied By An Edition Of The Prose Thèbes As Found In The Histoire Ancienne Jusqu'À César, Molly Lynde-Recchia Dec 1999

Prose, Verse, And Truth-Telling In The Thirteenth Century: An Essay On Form And Function In Selected Texts, Accompanied By An Edition Of The Prose Thèbes As Found In The Histoire Ancienne Jusqu'À César, Molly Lynde-Recchia

Molly Lynde-Recchia

The beginning of the thirteenth century can be viewed as the threshold which ushered in a new type of literature: the French prose narrative intended to entertain, instruct, and record. The arrival of the vernacular prose form on center stage is associated with a concern on the part of medieval writers that their compositions be accepted as truthful, and it is generally understood that it was in pursuit of that goal that translators and authors began to prefer prose to verse.

The gravitational pull of the thirteenth century's great prose cycles--the prose Tristan and the Lancelot-Grail--is intense, and they rightfully …

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Deux Versions De La Passio Sancti Eustachii En Ancien Français: La Question De La Forme Littéraire, Molly Lynde-Recchia Dec 1999

Deux Versions De La Passio Sancti Eustachii En Ancien Français: La Question De La Forme Littéraire, Molly Lynde-Recchia

Molly Lynde-Recchia

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The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson, Pamela King Dec 1999

The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson, Pamela King

Clifford Davidson

One of the greatest medieval drama cycles in England was mounted annually at Coventry at Corpus Christi until suppressed in 1579, and is of particular importance because it was almost certainly seen by William Shakespeare when he was a boy in nearby Stratford-upon-Avon. The two extant pageants from this cycle have been re-edited and are presented here for the first time in a modern critical edition. The introduction provides a full survey of knowledge about the Coventry cycle from the local dramatic records and other sources of information. Comprehensive critical and textual notes are included as well as a select …

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Cain In The Mysteries: The Iconography Of Violence, Clifford Davidson Dec 1999

Cain In The Mysteries: The Iconography Of Violence, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

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