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The Middle English mystery play :

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0521320623

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9780521320627

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b712305

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The Middle English mystery play :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a study in dramatic speech and form /

First Statement of Responsibility

Hans-Jürgen Diller ; translated by Frances Wessels.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1992.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvi, 336 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

European studies in English literature

Text of Note

Translation of: Redeformen des englischen Misterienspiels.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-322) and indexes.

Text of Note

pt. I. The foil: Latin church drama. 1. Liturgy and drama. 2. Liturgical point of view surrounding the dramatic core dialogue. 3. 'World-containing' situations. 4. The dramatization of narrative sources -- pt. II. The English Creation to Doom cycle. 5. The origins of the Creation to Doom cycle and its stage. 6. The representation of time and space in the cycles. 7. Address to the audience. 8. Intra-dramatic speeches -- 9. Conclusions.

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Text of Note

The mystery plays of medieval England have traditionally been analysed in ways which centre on the texts and their religious significance. Hans-Jurgen Diller's major study, first published in German, seeks to recover their dramatic potential by focusing on the function of language in conventional modes of speech, prayer, address and dialogue. He looks at speech and dramatic form in the plays to reveal new insights concerning spatial and temporal orientation, the expression of emotions, and the relationships between characters on stage, between actor and audience, and between the dramatic world and the ordinary world outside it. His analysis offers new ways of understanding the relationship of vernacular drama to its liturgical antecedents, and new means of distinguishing stylistically between the cycles and between the groups of plays they comprise.

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General Material Designation

Redeformen des englischen Misterienspiels.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Bible-- In literature.

Bible-- In literature.

Bible.

European studies in English literature.

New Testament-- In literature.

Bible plays, English-- History and criticism.

Christian drama, English (Middle)-- History and criticism.

English drama-- To 1500-- History and criticism.

Literary form-- History-- To 1500.

Mysteries and miracle-plays, English-- History and criticism.

Rhetoric, Medieval.

Speech in literature.

Bible dans la littérature

Mystères et miracles anglais-- Histoire et critique

Parole dans la littérature

Rhétorique médiévale

Théâtre anglais-- Avant 1500-- Histoire et critique

18.05 English literature.

24.11 history of drama.

Bible plays, English.

Bijbel.

Christian drama, English (Middle)

English drama-- To 1500-- History and criticism.

English drama.

Literary form.

Literature.

Middelengels.

Mysterienspiel

Mysteries and miracle-plays, English-- History and criticism.

Mysteries and miracle-plays, English.

Mysteriespelen.

Rede

Rhetoric, Medieval.

Rhetoric, Medieval.

Speech in literature.

Speech in literature.

Mittelenglisch.

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Diller, Hans-Jürgen.

Wessels, Frances

Date of Transaction

20201208025053.0

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