Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama: Signs of Challenge and Change

ISBN-13: 9781138718739 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Lynn Forest-Hill

Opis

This title was first published in 2000:  Insults, abuse, oaths, scatological and bawdy language - these form the subject of Lynn Forest-Hill's study on "bad" language in the late Middle Ages. She demonstrates how, in mediaeval mystery plays and morality plays, dramatists used outrageous language with great sophistication and subtlety to create characterizations and define characters' moral status, to reflect on social conditions, to condemn social evils, and to comment upon sensitive cultural, political and religious topics of the 16th century.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1: Language law and drama; 2: Transgressive language and characterization; 3: Social comment, religious dissent, and audience response in the biblical plays; 4: Transgressive language in fifteenth-century morality plays; 5: Magnyfycence: signs of change in the sixteenth century; 6: The Play of the Wether: entertainment and religious anxiety; 7: King Johan: the language of virtue and reformation

O autorze

Lynn Forest-Hill