It was a battle with temptation from the moment we stepped in the door. The smell of roast meat and potatoes greeted the guests upon entering the open, glassed upper floor of the Levis Faculty Center, and a slice of dessert—a sweet, creamy cheesecake—already marked each individual place setting. As a play that dramatizes the Christian concept of psychomachia, the battle for the soul, the medieval morality drama Mankindrepresents humanity’s ongoing struggle to choose between good and evil. We playgoers were immediately placed in a similar subject position to that of its eponymous character, Mankind. Thanks to its status as dinner theater, the performance was framed by gluttony. Faced with a decision between the rigors of labor or the ease of...
The plays Shakespeare produced in the second half of his career, from Hamlet (1600) through The Temp...
The paucity of details about secular theater in the fourteenth century allows Barry Unsworth to imag...
Mainly, the paper will show how a Christian virtue of mercy is perverted. The play The Merchant of V...
Medieval Drama: the summer-stock theater of late Medieval Europe! Once considered merely the poor (a...
Drama through the ages—from the Greeks’ Oedipus Rex to the morality plays of the Middle Ages—centers...
Mankind is without a doubt the most amusing and controversial morality play surviving from fifteenth...
This paper attempts to give an interpretation of the theatrical potential of Mankind and Auto de acu...
In 1997 Claire Sponsler argued that, contrary to conventional interpretations, the anarchic, disrupt...
This study uses Mikhail Bakhtin\u27s chronotope, which is the informing principle of one\u27s experi...
160 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981.Although temptation appears i...
Revenge tragedy rose to prominence during the mid-16th century and blossomed over the course of the ...
This paper attempts to bring forth the humanitarianism and affection in the different plays and poet...
Shakespearean tragedies stand out in the history of world’s literature for their influential languag...
This study proposes a reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a pilgrimage of the soul. There has been a ...
The paper studies the encounter between two opposite forces, - humanity, on the one side, and the fo...
The plays Shakespeare produced in the second half of his career, from Hamlet (1600) through The Temp...
The paucity of details about secular theater in the fourteenth century allows Barry Unsworth to imag...
Mainly, the paper will show how a Christian virtue of mercy is perverted. The play The Merchant of V...
Medieval Drama: the summer-stock theater of late Medieval Europe! Once considered merely the poor (a...
Drama through the ages—from the Greeks’ Oedipus Rex to the morality plays of the Middle Ages—centers...
Mankind is without a doubt the most amusing and controversial morality play surviving from fifteenth...
This paper attempts to give an interpretation of the theatrical potential of Mankind and Auto de acu...
In 1997 Claire Sponsler argued that, contrary to conventional interpretations, the anarchic, disrupt...
This study uses Mikhail Bakhtin\u27s chronotope, which is the informing principle of one\u27s experi...
160 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981.Although temptation appears i...
Revenge tragedy rose to prominence during the mid-16th century and blossomed over the course of the ...
This paper attempts to bring forth the humanitarianism and affection in the different plays and poet...
Shakespearean tragedies stand out in the history of world’s literature for their influential languag...
This study proposes a reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a pilgrimage of the soul. There has been a ...
The paper studies the encounter between two opposite forces, - humanity, on the one side, and the fo...
The plays Shakespeare produced in the second half of his career, from Hamlet (1600) through The Temp...
The paucity of details about secular theater in the fourteenth century allows Barry Unsworth to imag...
Mainly, the paper will show how a Christian virtue of mercy is perverted. The play The Merchant of V...