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Medieval Drama
ENGL-342 Textbooks for 2008 Coldewey, John C.
Early English Drama: An Anthology. New York and London: Garland,
1993. ISBN 0824054652 2008
production: This year the Medieval Drama Guild will produce Hell's Bells, a boisterous presentation of four tales about devils. Hell’s Bells will take place Saturday December 6 at 2:00 and Monday December 8 at 7:30 in the Special Events Center in the Student Union Building on the campus of Boise State University. Admission is $6, students and seniors $4. In The Last Judgment, a fifteenth-century mystery play, the demon Tutivillus cracks jokes as he gathers sinners. In Soul Food, an actor who has been playing the role of the devil frightens some poachers and then has difficulty returning the abandoned rabbits to their owner. Sung to a lively melody, the thirteenth-century Galician-Portuguese cantiga The Knight and the Devil tells how a knight who has lost his wealth vows to serve the Devil, but is rescued from the bad contract. Finally, in The Lady Prioress, a woman tricks her unwanted suitors by sending them to a chapel where a dead man comes to life and a demon attacks. For more information, click here. |