Description: This study examines the social, political and theological issues that were brought to the late medieval stage. Examining plays, urban pageant cycles and travelling miracles' and morality plays, dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, Ruth Nisse explores how these translated contemporary issues and especially vernacular theology through performance.
Brief description:
Ruth Nisse is associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Review Quotes:
"Nisse's exceptional study of the political implications of interpretation both represented in, and occasioned by various dramatic enactments of religious texts offers a fascinating glimpse into not only the performance history of her dramatic texts, but also the interweaving of the great intellectual and cultural threads which produce the unique texture of the period." --Comitatus