Defining Acts: Drama and the Politics of Interpretation in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Nisse, Ruth.
Defining Acts: Drama and the Politics of Interpretation in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.
- Physical Description
- x, 226 pp.
- Description
- Assesses the biblical and theatrical allusions in MilT for the ways that they engage the theme of interpretation, challenge gender categories, and dovetail with contemporary concerns about the dangers of drama and reading. Compares these with similar concerns in the "Treatise of Miracle Pleyinge" and accounts of the Peasants' Revolt, using these texts to initiate an analysis the politics and hermeneutics of late-medieval drama.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale