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Transforming Saint Dunstan on the Elizabethan stage Get access

Gina M. Di Salvo
in Manchester Scholarship Online > Medieval afterlives: Transforming traditions in Shakespeare and early English drama
Published: 28 May 2024
...This examines the production of alternative hagiographies, cultural pastimes, and miraculous theatricality in two Elizabethan plays featuring Saint Dunstan and the devil, the anonymous Knack to Know a Knave (1594) and Grim the Collier of Croyden (c. 1600) by William Houghton. While the former...
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Chaste and Silent – Again. Vitality and the Bound and Loosed Body in I. T.’s Grim the Collier of Croydon; or, The Devil and His Dame (c. 1600) Get access

Laura Seymour
in Edinburgh Scholarship Online > Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature
Published: 29 November 2022
...Discusses the c.1600 play Grim the Collier of Croydon, of uncertain authorship. Focuses on the imagery of binding and loosening in this play, contextualising it in terms of Reformation debates about the Power of the Keys (priests’ power of binding and loosing). Argues that images...