Play time by Daisy Black
This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama. It charts conflicts staged between dramatic personae in plays that represent theological transitions, including the Incarnation, Flood, Nativity and Bethlehem slaughter. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with what it asserted was a superseded Jewish past, it asks how models of supersession and typology are subverted when placed in dramatic dialogue with characters who experience time differently. The book employs theories of gender, performance, anti-Semitism, queer theory and periodisation to complicate readings of early theatre's biblical matriarchs and patriarchs. Dealing with frequently taught plays as well as less familiar material, the book is essential reading for specialist, undergraduate and postgraduate researchers working on medieval performance, gender and queer studies, Jewish-Christian studies and time.-
The Parlement of Foulys
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The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
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Medieval literary voices
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Hybrid healing
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Difficult pasts
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Transfiguring medievalism
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Medieval afterlives
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The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry
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Between liturgy and magic
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Walking in the Middle Ages
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Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries
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From Iceland to the Americas
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The politics of Middle English parables
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Translating hell
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Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France
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Northern Memories and the English Middle Ages
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Annotated Chaucer Bibliography
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Language and imagination in the Gawain poems
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Objects of Affection
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Harley Manuscript Geographies
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The The Knight and the Barrel (Le Chevalier Au Barisel)
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The Scottish Legendary
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Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare
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Roadworks
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A Knight's Legacy
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Enacting the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
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Transporting Chaucer
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Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain
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A Landscape of Words
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Reading Robin Hood
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Greenery
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Rethinking the South English Legendaries
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Aspects of Knowledge
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Practising Shame
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The Church as Sacred Space in Middle English Literature and Culture
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Fantastic histories
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Visions and Ruins
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Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature
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Marian Maternity in Late-Medieval England
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Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance
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Objects of belief
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Saga Emotions
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Strange matter
'This book was a pleasure to readThe writing is clear and accessible; the voice is engaging, with sections of lovely phrasing and surprising humour.'
The Review of English Studies
'Given Black’s clear and accessible handling of theory, and the ways in which she embeds her argument in the critical history of each play she addresses, I look forward to assigning her work to my graduate students. Overall, Daisy Black’s Play Time has much to offer scholars of early English drama and of literature and culture more broadly.'
Studies in the Age of Chaucer
'Given its focus on some of the greatest hits of the canon of early English drama and its fresh and insightful readings of familiar texts, Play Time will reward the attention of both scholars of medieval drama and those working in adjacent fields… Black demonstrates conclusively that multiple temporalities exist playfully side by side within medieval biblical drama and that the hegemony of Christian time is always under threat from history, which rarely is content to remain in the past.'
The Medieval Review
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| ISBN 13 | 9781807072865 |
| ISBN 10 | 180707286X |
| Title | Play time |
| Author | Daisy Black |
| Series | Manchester Medieval Literature And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2027-01-19 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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