Macbeth and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament: Blood and Belief in Early English Stagecraft [PDF]
This essay discusses blood as 'proof' in the late fifteenth-century Croxton Play of the Sacrament, and in Shakespeare's Macbeth. In Croxton, a bloody severed hand becomes a mark of the guilt of Jew Jonathas in torturing the eucharistic wafer; both ...
Dutton, Elisabeth
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Body, Site and Memory in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament
Imagining a production in the churchyard of All Saints in Croxton, East Anglia, the essay draws on recent advances in cognitive science to illustrate how embodied experience of The Play of the Sacrament might have affected an audience’s relationship with
Wright, Clare, Clare Wright
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The Meaning of Javanese Slametan Arwah in The Perspective of Eucharistic Theology Through Umberto Eco’s Sign of Production Theory [PDF]
Death is a universal experience that brings profound grief to the surrounding family and community. While the journey of grieving is deeply personal—shaped by each individual’s unique relationship with the deceased—cultural factors play a significant ...
Nugroho, Isodorus Bangkit Susetyo Adi +1 more
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A philosophical reading of Hamlet: A comparative study of the complexities of the earliest editions, Q1 (1603), Q2 (1604-5), and Folio (1623) [PDF]
Chapter One traces the origins of the Hamlet narrative, examining the play’s antecedent texts. The three early editions of the play are then studied in light of their relationship to the antecedent texts, and what is known about their provenance.
Burton, Edward
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Visual Thunder: The Power of the Image in Calderón\u27s La cena del rey Baltasar
After the Council of Trent, Catholic Spain in the seventeenth century increasingly turned to the arts to articulate their identity and mission as a church.
Russell, Kelly Ann
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Models of sacrifice and the art of Christian tragedy [PDF]
This thesis is a literary investigation of sacrifice in works of tragic literature and the Bible. In Part I, this thesis critiques René Girard’s scapegoating model of sacrifice and demonstrates the interpretive limitations that his theory of sacrifice ...
Nail, Brian W.
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Liturgical theology: children and the city [PDF]
Liturgical Theology: Children and the City engages academic liturgical theology, contextual sensitivity and key challenges faced by the church in contemporary Britain.
Burns, Stephen
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Great Secrets: The Eucharistic Charisms of St. Teresa of Ávila [PDF]
The research question of the thesis is: How do the life and writings of St. Teresa of Ávila illuminate the relation between the sacrament of the Eucharist and the charisms of the Holy Spirit?
Crawford Del Val, Esteban E.
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Reconsidering Paradigm Shifts as an Ecumenical Tool: The Irruption and Eruption in Breaking Bread
Here, an overview of Hans Küng’s understanding of paradigm shifts in theology is provided with a focus on its ecumenical aims. In the analysis of paradigm shifts as an ecumenical tool the strengths and weakness of this approach are presented, largely ...
Grimes, Gregory
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El auto «La vida es sueño» en escena: 1673-2019 [PDF]
Se traza la historia de más de treinta puestas en escena del auto sacramental La vida es sueño de Calderón de la Barca, desde el estreno de su segunda versión en Madrid en 1673, hasta 2019.
Plata-Parga, F. (Fernando) +1 more
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