{"product_id":"love-and-conflict-in-medieval-drama-the-plays-and-their-legacy-hardback-9780521827560","title":"Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama; The Plays and their Legacy (Hardback) 9780521827560","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLove and Conflict in Medieval Drama\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Plays and their Legacy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA detailed study of the stories dramatised in Europe before 1500.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLynette Muir (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521827560, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 July 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.63 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book provides a detailed survey of the hundreds of non-biblical serious plays which survive from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. The performers vary from civic groups and literary societies to courts and convents: mainly amateurs, but they left a legacy of stories that was drawn upon by the writers for the professional theatre companies of Elizabethan England, Golden Age Spain and the rich baroque theatre of France. Stories from the Golden Legend and collections of Marian miracles appear side by side with folk tales and traditional stories brought from the Middle East by merchants, pilgrims and other travellers. Muir considers what she terms the 'legacy' of these tales: when playwrights for the public theatres such as Shakespeare and Lope de Vega retain the situations and settings of the older stories but transform them by the emphasis on psychology and the gradual disappearance of the religious element.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations and short titles used in the text and notes\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: staging the stories\u003cbr\u003e Part I. War in Heaven: Saints and Sinners: 1. The noble army of martyrs\u003cbr\u003e 2. White martyrdom: the hermits\u003cbr\u003e 3. Soldiers of Christ: the Church militant\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Miracles of Salvation: 4. Miraculous conversions of Jews (and a few pagans)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sacrament plays\u003cbr\u003e 6. Your adversary the Devil: the sacred and the damned\u003cbr\u003e 7. Who sups with the Devil: the rash bargain\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Conflicting Relationships: Love, Hate and Marriage: 8. Happily ever after: friends and lovers\u003cbr\u003e 9. Premarital problems\u003cbr\u003e 10. The falsely accused queen and other suffering wives\u003cbr\u003e 11. Domestic dramas\u003cbr\u003e 12. The wager\u003cbr\u003e 13. Hell hath no fury: the woman scorned\u003cbr\u003e 14. Family feuds\u003cbr\u003e 15. The theatre of cruelty\u003cbr\u003e 16. Le coeur mangé and other culinary surprises\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Power, Politics and Patriotism: 17. The siege of Troy\u003cbr\u003e 18. The siege and destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70\u003cbr\u003e 19. Early Christian Europe: Constantine to the crusades\u003cbr\u003e 20. Christianity goes west\u003cbr\u003e 21. The worthy, the proud and the popular\u003cbr\u003e 22. Pride and the wheel of Fortune\u003cbr\u003e 23. Affairs of state\u003cbr\u003e 24. Patriots and popular heroes\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: from Queen of Heaven to Fairy Queen\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265185894680,"sku":"9780521827560","price":87.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521827560i.jpg?v=1692020303","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/love-and-conflict-in-medieval-drama-the-plays-and-their-legacy-hardback-9780521827560","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}