IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1025: Emperors and Tyrants in Religious Plays
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Société Internationale pour l'Étude du Théâtre Médiéval (SITM) |
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Organiser: | Cora Dietl, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen |
Moderator/Chair: | Cora Dietl, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen |
Paper 1025-a | Irdische Herrschaft im Antichristspiel zwischen Relativierung und Konsolidierung (Language: Deutsch) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Latin, Performance Arts - Drama |
Paper 1025-b | Wiener Fronleichnamsspiele im Kontext imperialer Interessen (Language: Deutsch) Index terms: Performance Arts - General, Performance Arts - Drama, Political Thought, Social History |
Paper 1025-c | The Comic Fury of the Raging Tyrant: The Representation of Herod in Medieval Plays and the Classical Roots of Medieval Drama (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Performance Arts - Drama, Rhetoric |
Abstract | Religious plays that represent the salvation history can't avoid depicting secular rulers, who can either appear as legitimate representatives of the divine order, or as its opponents. The papers in this session ask about the strategies by which medieval Corpus Christi and Antichrist plays use the potential of the stage for their discussions of the idea of kingship and possibly for supporting or criticizing the contemporary emperor's or king's politics. They also enquire how the plays refer to traditional literary or dramatic patterns for the explanation of tyranny. |