Table of Contents

Introduction; 1 Mass murder: Shocking spectators of late medieval sacrament plays; 2 The strumpet saint: Eroticism and artifice in Mary Magdalene plays; 3 Wilhelm Tell and Robin Hood, outlaws or elite?; 4 The perils of public festivity; Conclusion: Playmakers and their strategies; Bibliography; Index

About the Author

Nadia Thérèse van Pelt is a Lecturer at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. She obtained her PhD at the University of Southampton in 2014 and focuses her research on early European drama and spectacle, through the study of playmaker strategies and spectatorship.

Reviews

"At its best, this useful study provides an innovative framework for approaching the relationship between spectatorship, performances and playmakers. The chapters adroitly bring together performances in a pan-European context which is still all too little discussed."Jamie Beckett, Literature & History, UK"Accompanying its readers across an impressive range of geographic, temporal, or linguistic boundaries, Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Europe guides them toward a better understanding of the common ground on which the theatrical cultures of medieval and early modern Europe were built."David J. Amelang, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY VOLUME LXXIV