RT Book
T1 Play time: gender, anti-semitism and temporality in medieval biblical drama
T2 Manchester medieval literature and culture
A1 Black, Daisy
LA English
PP Manchester
PB Manchester University Press
YR 2020
ED 1. published
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1809640784
AB 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 Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with what it asserted was a superseded Jewish past, it asks how models of supersession and typology are subverted when placed in dramatic dialogue with characters who experience time differently.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
NO Includes bibliography (pages 207-228) and index
CN PN1880
SN 978-1-5261-4685-4
SN 978-1-5261-4687-8
K1 Christian drama, English (Middle) : History and criticism
K1 Antisemitism in literature
K1 Sex in literature
K1 Bible plays : History and criticism
K1 Bible plays
K1 Christian drama, English (Middle)
K1 Criticism, interpretation, etc
DO 10.7765/9781526146878