Mary Magdalene as New Custance?: "The Woman Cast Adrift" in the Digby Mary Magdalene Play.
- Author / Editor
- Findon, Joanne.
Mary Magdalene as New Custance?: "The Woman Cast Adrift" in the Digby Mary Magdalene Play.
- Published
- English Studies in Canada 32.4 (2006): 25-50.
- Description
- Explores relations between medieval romance and medieval religious drama, focusing on the "woman cast adrift" motif in the Digby Mary Magdalene play. Assesses how contrasts between the protagonists' agency in the play and in versions of the Constance story by Chaucer, Trevet, and Gower may have enhanced the status of Magdalene as an active and powerful "female heroine" for a late-medieval audience.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion