Saints at Play Hb

by Vicki L. Hamblin

In the introduction to her study of twenty-eight French nonbiblical hagiographic mystery plays from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Hamblin notes that "this approach is intended to strengthen a comparative analysis of relatively similar texts created within a particular cultural setting. [The plays'] somewhat parallel narrative and performative structures facilitate their comparison as performance remnants ... To that end, the first three chapters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158044167X
• ISBN13: 9781580441674
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.