Medieval 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 ...
Tópico(s): Historical Studies of British Isles
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