The Mary Play : From the N. Town Manuscript
Overview
The Mary Play is a beautiful and engaging piece of late medieval stagecraft. It is rich in music and spectacle, and is the only English play which deals with the parents of the Virgin Mary and with her early life; the only play which centers on a prayer, the Ave Maria; the only play which in its devotional intensity reflects the central concerns of the late fifteenth century lay piety. This edition, a new volume in the series Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies, presents the play as a single entity rather than as a number of pageants in a cycle play. The introduction describes the manuscript, its language, place, and staging. There is extensive commentary which places the play in its intellectual and its theatrical contexts, and a complete glossary.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780859895477
- ISBN-10: 0859895475
- Publisher: Liverpool University Press
- Publish Date: April 1997
- Dimensions: 8.98 x 6 x 0.53 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 196
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