IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1325: Constructions Matérielles du Sacré et du Infernal au Théâtre / Material Constructions of the Holy and the Diabolic on Stage
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
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: | Véronique Dominguez, Université de Nantes |
Paper 1325-a | Une Pièce Centrale des Représentations de Mystères: La Gueule d’Enfer (Language: Français) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life |
Paper 1325-b | Material Godheads, Made from Stone and Wood: Heathen Idols on the 16th-Century Swiss Stage (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life |
Abstract | The papers of the session discuss how the principals of immateriality, such as the sacred or divine, and the diabolic, are represented or rather constructed on stage by the use of 'things', which might be understood as symbols or attributes of the divine or diabolic. Paper -a focusses on the hell mouth that was frequently used in 15th-century religious plays, and asks how the material side of these constructions helped to represent the violence and horror of hell in plays like the Mystère de la Passion by Arnoul Gréban. Paper -c compares the representation and critique of 'material godheads', i.e. heathen idols in Catholic and Protestant religious plays that were staged in 16th century Switzerland, in the context of the contemporary discussion of the cult of saints. |