Name: Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama (en Inglés)
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Author: Forest-Hill, Lynn
ISBN: 9781138718739

portada Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama (en Inglés)

Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Lynn Forest-Hill

Editorial

Routledge

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9781138718739

Categorías

Irlanda
Reino unido
Obras de teatro, textos teatrales
Sociología

Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama (en Inglés)

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This title was first published in 2000: Insults, abuse, oaths, scatological and bawdy language - these form the subject of Lynn Forest-Hill's study on "bad" language in the late Middle Ages. She demonstrates how, in mediaeval mystery plays and morality plays, dramatists used outrageous language with great sophistication and subtlety to create characterizations and define characters' moral status, to reflect on social conditions, to condemn social evils, and to comment upon sensitive cultural, political and religious topics of the 16th century. The author begins by defining what constitutes sinful or transgressive language in the later mediaeval period, and establishes its moral significance. She then illustrates how the moral significance of language is used in drama to define the spiritual and social status of characters, and introduces the concept of sinful language as a sign of spiritual change. In later chapters the book explores the use of "bad" language in mystery and morality plays, focusing specifically on Skelton's "Magnyfycence", Heywood's "The Play of the Weather", and Bale's "King Johan". The study shows the extent to which the moral significance of language in drama shifted during the 16th century under pressure from cultural and political change, paving the way for less morally rigorous and more socially sensitive definitions of "bad" language.