Author: John Conley
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004483330
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Mirror of Everyman's Salvation
Author: John Conley
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004483330
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004483330
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Mirror of Salvation
Author: Adriaan J. Barnouw
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401175306
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
In two world wars waged within the life time of one generation Death reaped a prolific harvest. His most formidable scythe in former days was not war but pestilence. But since medical science has forged all kinds of weapons wherewith to strike that dreaded tool out of his knuckles he resorted in our lifetime to a new technique of morticulture which has yielded him un dreamt-of results. Using race hatred as fertilizer he has grown on the soil of the globe a crop of dead whose size baffles the imagination. The executioners whom he employed in Hitler's Germany kept careful record of the loathsome work they did for him in torture camps and gas chambers. They reckoned that six million Jews were delivered to Death by their efforts. In Holland alone only fifteen thousand of her one hundred and fifty thousand Jews survived the massacre. Death was the chief war profiteer. Though his inflated power was reduced by the overthrow of his Nazi henchmen, his innings are still large as he stalks across the world with his satellites Poverty, Hunger, and Disease.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401175306
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
In two world wars waged within the life time of one generation Death reaped a prolific harvest. His most formidable scythe in former days was not war but pestilence. But since medical science has forged all kinds of weapons wherewith to strike that dreaded tool out of his knuckles he resorted in our lifetime to a new technique of morticulture which has yielded him un dreamt-of results. Using race hatred as fertilizer he has grown on the soil of the globe a crop of dead whose size baffles the imagination. The executioners whom he employed in Hitler's Germany kept careful record of the loathsome work they did for him in torture camps and gas chambers. They reckoned that six million Jews were delivered to Death by their efforts. In Holland alone only fifteen thousand of her one hundred and fifty thousand Jews survived the massacre. Death was the chief war profiteer. Though his inflated power was reduced by the overthrow of his Nazi henchmen, his innings are still large as he stalks across the world with his satellites Poverty, Hunger, and Disease.
Everyman and Mankind
Author: Douglas Bruster
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408138166
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Everyman and Mankind are morality plays which mark the turn of the medieval period to the early modern, with their focus on the individual. Everyman follows a man's journey towards death and his efforts to secure himself a life thereafter, whilst Mankind shows a man battling with temptation and sin, often with great humour. Both texts are modernised here and edited to the highest standards of scholarship, with full on-page commentaries giving the depth of information and insight associated with all Arden editions. The comprehensive, illustrated introduction argues that the plays signal the birth of the early modern consciousness and puts them in their historic and religious contexts. An account is also given of the staging and performance history of the plays and their critical history and significance. With a wealth of helpful and incisive commentary this is the finest edition of the plays available.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408138166
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Everyman and Mankind are morality plays which mark the turn of the medieval period to the early modern, with their focus on the individual. Everyman follows a man's journey towards death and his efforts to secure himself a life thereafter, whilst Mankind shows a man battling with temptation and sin, often with great humour. Both texts are modernised here and edited to the highest standards of scholarship, with full on-page commentaries giving the depth of information and insight associated with all Arden editions. The comprehensive, illustrated introduction argues that the plays signal the birth of the early modern consciousness and puts them in their historic and religious contexts. An account is also given of the staging and performance history of the plays and their critical history and significance. With a wealth of helpful and incisive commentary this is the finest edition of the plays available.
The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-century German Drama
Author: Brian Murdoch
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1640141170
Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Death still comes to Everyman, but this study of three twentieth-century German plays shows the harder challenge of living without salvation in an age of war and unprecedented mass destruction. Death comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval morality play of Everyman the familiar skeleton forces the universalized central figure to come to terms with this. Only his inner resources, in the forms of Good Deeds and Knowledge, ensure that he repents and is redeemed. Three important twentieth-century German plays echo Everyman - Toller's Hinkemann, Borchert's The Man Outside, and Frisch's The Arsonists/Firebugs - but the unprecedented scale of killing in the First and Second World Wars changed the view of death, while in the Cold War the nuclear destruction literally of everyone became a possibility. Brian Murdoch traces the heritage of Everyman in the three plays in terms of dramatic effect, changes in the image of Death, and especially the problem of living with existential guilt. Death, now over-fed, still has to be faced, but Everyman has the harder problem of living with the awareness of human wickedness without the possibility of salvation. All three plays have tended to be viewed in their specific historical contexts, but by viewing them less rigidly and as part of a long dramatic tradition, Murdoch shows that all present a message of lasting and universal significance. They pose directly to the theater audience questions not just of how to cope with death, but how to cope with life.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1640141170
Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Death still comes to Everyman, but this study of three twentieth-century German plays shows the harder challenge of living without salvation in an age of war and unprecedented mass destruction. Death comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval morality play of Everyman the familiar skeleton forces the universalized central figure to come to terms with this. Only his inner resources, in the forms of Good Deeds and Knowledge, ensure that he repents and is redeemed. Three important twentieth-century German plays echo Everyman - Toller's Hinkemann, Borchert's The Man Outside, and Frisch's The Arsonists/Firebugs - but the unprecedented scale of killing in the First and Second World Wars changed the view of death, while in the Cold War the nuclear destruction literally of everyone became a possibility. Brian Murdoch traces the heritage of Everyman in the three plays in terms of dramatic effect, changes in the image of Death, and especially the problem of living with existential guilt. Death, now over-fed, still has to be faced, but Everyman has the harder problem of living with the awareness of human wickedness without the possibility of salvation. All three plays have tended to be viewed in their specific historical contexts, but by viewing them less rigidly and as part of a long dramatic tradition, Murdoch shows that all present a message of lasting and universal significance. They pose directly to the theater audience questions not just of how to cope with death, but how to cope with life.
Literature and Lore of the Sea
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004487891
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004487891
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Narrating Death
Author: Daniel Jernigan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429755678
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about death.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429755678
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about death.
Elckerlijc
Author: Clifford Davidson
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Faced with death's certainty-and the uncertainty of the time of its coming, particularly in a historical period of widespread plague and other afflictions-as well as the inevitability of the hereafter, what is one to do? Everyman speaks to this dilemma. . . . The protagonist is one who, because he has laid up treasures on earth, has been in a position to do good deeds, but he has been very lax about it and instead has pursued enjoyment and wealth, the latter hoarded instead of being shared with the poor and needy. . . . Now he must, as the medieval mystics knew, endure the solitariness of leaving behind all that has given him comfort in this world. . . . This facing page translation of this Continental play will be useful to all students of theater.
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Faced with death's certainty-and the uncertainty of the time of its coming, particularly in a historical period of widespread plague and other afflictions-as well as the inevitability of the hereafter, what is one to do? Everyman speaks to this dilemma. . . . The protagonist is one who, because he has laid up treasures on earth, has been in a position to do good deeds, but he has been very lax about it and instead has pursued enjoyment and wealth, the latter hoarded instead of being shared with the poor and needy. . . . Now he must, as the medieval mystics knew, endure the solitariness of leaving behind all that has given him comfort in this world. . . . This facing page translation of this Continental play will be useful to all students of theater.
The Romantic Age in Prose
Author: Alan W. Bellringer
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789062039814
Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789062039814
Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Structures of Opposition in Old English Poems
Author: Marie Nelson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004488618
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004488618
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The House as a Symbol
Author: Barbara Fisher
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789062037087
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789062037087
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description