Comparative Drama articles from September 2008

Comparative Drama archives from September 2008

Scenarios of the "descent into hell" in two processional antiphons.
September 22, 2008... Despite the importance of the other events of Holy Week and Easter, the biblical account gives only scant reference to what transpired during the three-day interim between Crucifixion and Resurrection. "there are mainly ambiguous affirmations...

Portrayals of the vita Christi in the medieval German Marienklage: signs of Franciscan exegesis and rhetoric in drama and music.
September 22, 2008... The compassion the Virgin Mary must have felt for the suffering of her crucified Son was a theme that fascinated biblical exegetes throughout the Middle Ages. The seeds of this Mariological tradition sowed by Origen and Sts. Chrysostom and...

Liturgical drama and the "School of Abelard".
September 22, 2008... The realization that the Beauvais Play of Daniel is intimately associated with the "School of Abelard" (1) has clarified many matters of doubt. We now know that there must have been a prototype play in the possession of the School, probably...

Pilgrims and prostitutes: costume and identity construction in twelfth-century liturgical drama.
September 22, 2008... Compiled sometime in the last quarter of the twelfth century at the Benedictine monastery at St.-Benoit-sur-Loire, the Fleury Playbook contains the record of a highly unusual theatrical event. (1) It is found in the Raising of Lazarus, a play...