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Ruth Nisse.
Defining Acts: Drama and the Politics of Interpretation in Late Medieval England.

Publisher: Notre Dame U.P., 2005.
ISBN 0268036020;
ISBN-13: 9780268036027.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 152×226×18mm.
Page count: x,227pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the covers on this copy are a bit scuffed, a little wear on the edges and corners; page edges slightly grubby; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.


This item £6.00
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[Publisher’s price $23.00]
Weight without packaging: 371g.

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Contents: Drama after Chaucer — the Miller’s Tale & the failures of representation; Civic rhetoric & Lollard politics in the York plays; Naked visions; Wakefield Master’s poor theater; Jewish exegesis & urban identity in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament; Wisdom’s devotional politics.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 19pp
Index: yes 

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