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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 315–337.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Christina M. Fitzgerald The Croxton Play of the Sacrament paradoxically enacts anxieties about the propriety of Passion drama. Framing the play's central action—the Jews' testing of the Communion wafer in a parody of the Passion—with the story of a Christian merchant who enables or even sponsors...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 281–309.
Published: 01 May 2003
...David Lawton © by Duke University Press 2003 Sacrilege and Theatricality: the Croxton Play of the Sacrament David Lawton Washington University...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 271–298.
Published: 01 May 2024
... the perceptible surfaces of the consecrated host: it is beautiful and amenable to sight. 79 74 Zysk, Shadow and Substance , 169. 75 Grantley, “Producing Miracles,” 85. 76 Sister Nicholas Maltman, “Meaning and Art in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament ,” ELH 41, no. 2 (1974): 149–64...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 241–259.
Published: 01 May 2003
... story, a version of which is also related in the fifteenth-century East Anglian Croxton Play of the Sacrament,31 depicts a Jewish person buying a consecrated host from a Christian and cooking it: blood flows from the pan across the floor through the wall and into the street; soldiers break...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 January 2002
... find them, with an accretion of attached meanings and values (which can of course always be lost or revised). To cite one example from the field of medieval drama, the sole surviving copy of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament is now in Trinity College, Dublin, MS F.4.20, fols. 338r–56r...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 253–283.
Published: 01 May 2008
... throughout the fifteenth century.10 Moreover, its specter can be seen in a renewed inter- est in orthodox artistic productions of the sacraments in East Anglia during this period, including dramatic works such as the Croxton Play of the Sacra- ment and the morality plays themselves.11 Significantly...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 335–367.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, and the cycle plays of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, became officially prohibited in the English public theater.2 Nonetheless, Marlowe and other dramatists appropriated liturgical rites like the Mass and sacra- mental doctrines like transubstantiation...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 559–587.
Published: 01 September 2008
... littéraires, les personnages de lépreux n’apparaissent que rarement sympathiques, le plus souvent malfaisants, haineux et inhumains” (Histoire des lépreux, 139 – 40). 47 Perhaps the best-known literary treatment of host desecration is the late-fifteenth- century Croxton Play...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 395–420.
Published: 01 May 2012
... de l’Omme, and in The Croxton Play of the Sacrament — to mention a few of the most promi- nent English instances. Moreover, criticism of medical expertise was a ven- erable humanist tradition, from Pliny to Petrarch, and in the early modern period, the physician’s and apothecary’s jargon...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 503–531.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., the restorative theater of virtue exemplified in dramatic works from Mankinde and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament to the Tudor interludes and the Jonsonian humors. His comedy of the damned Moor helps to explain why, after the revolutions of the mid-seventeenth century, comic drama will have to survive...