Enacting the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Drama

Chanita Goodblatt is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Eva von Contzen is Junior Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany -- .

Introduction – Chanita Goodblatt and Eva von Contzen
Part I: Medieval drama
1 Lay piety and impiety: the role of Noah’s wife in the Chester play of Noah’s Flood – Lawrence Besserman
2 Typology, community, and stagecraft in the N-town ‘Trial of Mary and Joseph’ – Jonathan Stavsky
3 Embodiment and joint attention: an enactive reading of the Middle English cycle plays– Eva von Contzen
Part II: From medieval to early modern drama
4 From medieval to early modern choric threnody in biblical plays – Silvia Bigliazzi
5 The itinerant healer as a stage role: its origins in religious drama – M. A. Katritzky
6 Citing scripture in later medieval and early modern English morality drama – Cathy Shrank
7 Religious violence and dramatic innovation in the Tudor interlude: John Heywood’s The Pardoner and the Friar – Greg Walker
8 Elizabethan biblical drama – Paul Whitfield White
Part III: Early modern drama
9 Protestant place, Protestant props in the plays of Nicholas Grimald– Elisabeth Dutton
10 Staging prophecy: A Looking Glass for London and the Book of Jonah– Hannibal Hamlin
11 Early modern dramatic martyrdom– Monika Fludernik
12 ‘Samson Figuru nese’: biblical plays between Czech drama and English comedy in early modern Central Europe– Pavel Drábek
13 To play the Fool: the Book of Esther in early modern biblical drama– Chanita Goodblatt
Index -- .