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Croxton Play of the Sacrament

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The play survives in a single sixteenth-century copy, dramatizes the physical abuse by five Muhammad-worshipping Syrian Jews of a Host, the bread consecrated by a priest during the Christian Mass. The text is the work...
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The Croxton Play of the Sacrament, which survives in a single sixteenth-century copy, dramatizes the physical abuse by five Muhammad-worshipping Syrian Jews of a Host, the bread consecrated by a priest during the Christian Mass. The text is the work of a playwright possessed of a tremendous theatrical imagination, notwithstanding his choice of subject matter.
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Price: £17.50
Pages: 138
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Imprint: Medieval Institute Publications
Series: TEAMS Middle English Texts Series
Publication Date: 01 January 2013
ISBN: 9781580441810
Format: Paperback
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
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John T. Sebastian is Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature at Loyola University New Orleans. His research interests include 14th- and 15th-century English religious literature and medieval mysticism.
Acknowledgements Introduction Play of the Sacrament Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Appendix: Music Bibliography Glossary