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019 _a(OCoLC)1013938215
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020 _a9781442679542
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442679542
035 _a(DE-B1597)464839
035 _a(OCoLC)944177565
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082 0 4 _a822/.05160901
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aScoville, Chester Norman
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSaints and the Audience in Middle English Biblical Drama /
_cChester Norman Scoville.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2004]
264 4 _c©2004
300 _a1 online resource (280 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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520 _aThe study of saints in medieval biblical drama has often been neglected in favour of the study of sinners ? the villains and the rogues. In Saints and the Audience in Middle English Biblical Drama, Chester N. Scoville takes a different tack, examining the language and rhetoric of saintly characters in Middle English biblical plays. Scoville contends that the plays focus attention on the interaction between the divine realm and the human realm, that the saintly characters are key to seeing this interaction, and that the overall function of the plays is to instill in the audience a shared point of view defined both by doctrine and by experience.By placing the rhetoric of the plays at the centre of his study, Scoville incorporates performative practices and historical contexts into the argument. Language, text, and persuasion are central in the rhetorical experience, as are non-verbal elements such as costume, movement, gesture, and scenery. Saints and the Audience in Middle English Biblical Drama fully and assiduously explains how biblical drama functioned in the society that experienced it.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aMysteries and miracle-plays, English
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aTheater audiences
_zEngland
_xHistory
_yTo 1500.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442679542
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