Lynette R. Muir

Love and conflict in medieval drama : the plays and their legacy

List of illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations and short titles used in the text and notes Introduction: staging the stories Part I. War in Heaven: Saints and Sinners: 1. The noble army of martyrs 2. White martyrdom: the hermits 3. Soldiers of Christ: the Church militant Part II. Miracles of Salvation: 4. Miraculous conversions of Jews (and a few pagans) 5. Sacrament plays 6. Your adversary the Devil: the sacred and the damned 7. Who sups with the Devil: the rash bargain Part III. Conflicting Relationships: Love, Hate and Marriage: 8. Happily ever after: friends and lovers 9. Premarital problems 10. The falsely accused queen and other suffering wives 11. Domestic dramas 12. The wager 13. Hell hath no fury: the woman scorned 14. Family feuds 15. The theatre of cruelty 16. Le coeur mange and other culinary surprises Part IV. Power, Politics and Patriotism: 17. The siege of Troy 18. The siege and destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 19. Early Christian Europe: Constantine to the crusades 20. Christianity goes west 21. The worthy, the proud and the popular 22. Pride and the wheel of Fortune 23. Affairs of state 24. Patriots and popular heroes Conclusion: from Queen of Heaven to Fairy Queen Notes Bibliography Index.

The Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe

Introduction: Christian Europe and the play of God Part I. The Theatrical Community: 1. Liturgical and feast-day drama 2. Civic and community drama 3. Performance and the community Part II. The Theatrical Text: 4. Creation and fall 5. The covenant and the kingdom 6. Prophets and precursors of redemption 7. The birth and childhood of Jesus 8. The public life of Jesus 9. The Passion and Resurrection 10. Pentecost to judgement Conclusion: survival and revival Appendix. The liturgical context of the plays.