Drama, Play, and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period

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How was it possible for drama, especially biblical representations, to appear in the Christian West given the church's condemnation of the theatrum of the ancient world?In a book with radical implications for the study of medieval literature, Lawrence Clopper resolves this perplexing question.

Drama, Play, and Game demonstrates that the theatrum repudiated by medieval clerics was not "theater" as we understand the term today. Clopper...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226110303

ISBN13:9780226110301

Release Date:May 2001

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:1.38 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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