Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-228) and index.
Contents:
5. 1. Conclusion: the spectator's God's-eye view. 2. Grave new world: fantasies of supersession and explosive questions in the York and Chester Flood plays -- 3. Time out of joint: queering the Nativity in the Towneley Second Shepherds' Play -- 4. Passion meets Passover: temporal origami in the Towneley Herod the Great -- 5. Conclusion: the spectator's God's-eye view.
Summary:
This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama. It charts conflicts staged between dramatic personae in plays that represent theological transitions, including the Incarnation, Flood, Nativity and Bethlehem slaughter. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with what it asserted was a superseded Jewish past, it asks how models of supersession and typology are subverted when placed in dramatic dialogue with characters who experience time differently. The book employs theories of gender, performance, anti-Semitism, queer theory and periodisation to complicate readings of early theatre's biblical matriarchs and patriarchs. Dealing with frequently taught plays as well as less familiar material, the book is essential reading for specialist, undergraduate and postgraduate researchers working on medieval performance, gender and queer studies, Jewish-Christian studies and time.
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