224 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
Contents Preface vii Introduction 1 Language law and drama 2 Transgressive language and characterization 3 Social comment, religious dissent, and audience response 50 in the biblical plays 4 Transgressive language in three fifteenth-century morality plays 5 Magnyfycence: signs of change in the sixteenth century 6 The Play of the Weather, entertainment and religious anxiety 7 King Johan: the language of virtue and reformation
Biography
Lynn Forest-Hill,
