IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1126: Sentence and Solace in English Biblical Drama, II
Wednesday 3 July 2013, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Records of Early English Drama / Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Oxford |
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| Organiser: | Alexandra F. Johnston, Records of Early English Drama, University of Toronto, Downtown |
| Moderator/Chair: | Margaret Rogerson, Department of English, University of Sydney |
| Paper 1126-a | The Culture of Tyranny in the Digby Mary Magdalen (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life |
| Paper 1126-b | Magdalen's Mistake or Divine Costume Design?: Christ as the Gardener in English Dramatic Portraits of John 20 (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life |
| Paper 1126-c | Biblicism and Historicism in Lewis Wager's Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Almost all the plays that have survived from the English Middle Ages and many 16th plays are based on Biblical or other sacred text. The three papers in this session will examine the treatment of the figure of Mary Magdalen as she is presented in the Biblical cycles, the medieval play of Mary Magdalen and the sixteenth century play Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalen by Lewis Wager |