Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism and Temporality in Medieval Biblical Drama

This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama. It charts conflicts staged between dramatic personae in plays that represent theological transitions, including the Incarnation, Flood, Nativity and Bethlehem slaughter. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with what it asserted was a superseded Jewish past, it asks how models of supersession and typology are subverted when placed in dramatic dialogue with characters who experience time differently. The book employs theories of gender, performance, anti-Semitism, queer theory and periodisation to complicate readings of early theatre's biblical matriarchs and patriarchs. Dealing with frequently taught plays as well as less familiar material, the book is essential reading for specialist, undergraduate and postgraduate researchers working on medieval performance, gender and queer studies, Jewish-Christian studies and time.

Author: Daisy Black
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 10/27/2020
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781526146861
ISBN10: 152614686X
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Medieval
- Literary Criticism | Medieval
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes | Religion

About the Author
Daisy Black is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton