Defining Acts: Drama and the Politics of Interpretation in Late Medieval England

by Nisse and Ruth Nisse

Book Overview

Defining Acts considers how the surviving English theatrical works of the fifteenth century represent competing practices of interpretation. The plays take up a series of contests over who could legitimately determine the meaning of texts--men or women, clerics or laity, rulers or subjects, Christians or Jews--and transform these questions for audiences far beyond their original medieval academic contexts. Ruth Nisse focuses in particular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268036020
• ISBN13: 9780268036027
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"