Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index.
Contents:
Toward a Renaissance culture of medieval artifacts -- The Chester Banns: a sixteenth-century perspective on the mysteries -- Balaam to Bottom: a sixteenth-century translation -- Then is doomsday near: Hamlet, the Last Judgment, and the place of purgatory -- Here's a knocking indeed!: Macbeth and the harrowing of hell -- Epilogue: riding the Banns beyond Shakespeare.
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