IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1226: Sentence and Solace in English Biblical Drama, III
Wednesday 3 July 2013, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Records of Early English Drama / Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Oxford |
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| Organiser: | Diana Wyatt, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Alexandra F. Johnston, Records of Early English Drama, University of Toronto, Downtown |
| Respondent: | Gordon L. Kipling, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Paper 1226-a | John the Baptist Preaching Penance (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life |
| Paper 1226-b | Dramatic Practice in John Bale's Biblical Plays and Some Contemporary Cycles in England and Abroad (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Almost all the plays that have survived from the English Middle Ages and many 16th century plays are based on Biblical or other sacred text. One of the papers in this session will extend the consideration of English Biblical plays to contemporary French analogies while the second considers the challenges faced by English Protestant dramatists such as John Bale and Arthur Golding as they sought to give Protestant Biblical plays the popularity of the familiar Catholic drama. |