Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-211) and index.
Contents:
1. Introduction: Power, History, Drama -- 2. The Body: Bare Life in the Passion Plays -- 3. Things: Objects and Agency in the Trial and Crucifixion Plays -- 4. Gender/Politics: Resistant Motherhood in the Innocents Plays and the Planctus Mariae -- 5. Economics: Money, Labor, and Ideology in Four Towneley Plays -- 6. Law: Obligation and Legal Parody in the Cain and Abel Plays -- 7. Conclusion: The Authority of the Audience.
Summary:
"This book investigates various modes of resistance to authority found in medieval Biblical drama. It concerns the ways in which the dissemination of power throughout culture is represented in these plays: the human body, objects, gender, politics, economics, law, and theater itself, as well as religion, are all registers in which such resistance may be enacted"-- Provided by publisher.
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