Deliver us from evil : essays on symbolic engagement in early drama
The focus of this book is on the reality of evil for medieval and Renaissance dramatists and their audiences. What propels the work beyond similar critiques is the author's insistence that evil is not an outmoded feature of past societies, but an active ingredient of contemporary life.
AMS studies in the Middle Ages, no. 27
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780404641672, 0404641679
54929520
Preface; 1. Polemical Introduction: Evil In Play; 2. The Lord's Prayer, The Seven Deadly Sins, And Playing Against Evil; 3. Temptation, Fall, And Resistance; 4. Emperor, King, And Saint; 5. ""Let Not The Pit Shut Her Mouth Upon Me""; 6. The Individual, The Community, And The Threat Of Evil; 7. Authority, Conflict, And War; Conclusion; Index