Drama in Sermons: Quotation, Performativity, and Conversion in a Middle English Sermon on the Prodigal Son and in A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge
2002; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 69; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/elh.2002.0006
ISSN1080-6547
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Studies of British Isles
ResumoMedieval England's most severe vernacular antitheatrical statement, the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge (ca. 1380-1425), is also its fullest expression of dramatic theory. 1 Though it finds nothing redeeming in theater, rejecting it as ineffectual and blasphemous while extolling preaching instead, the Tretise is itself a theory of the theater that quotes and disputes another theory of the theater--making it an antagonistic dialogue of theories. The fact that the Tretise has two distinct authors, one providing a continuation to the other's text, further compounds its dialogic character. In this sense, the Tretise employs drama's constituent linguistic form in order to further an unrelenting antitheatrical position. 2
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