CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Krnic, Marija |
|---|---|
| Title | PASSION & DEVOTION: PASSION PLAYS AND THE PERFORMANCE OF PIETY ON THE EASTERN ADRIATIC COAST |
| Summary | The thesis examines the corpus of Passion plays from the Eastern Adriatic, from the perspective of religious and social history. In contrast to philological aspects of the plays, which are already well examined in the literature, this research focuses on less studied features. Textual level of these plays is thereby explored in a novel way, where texts are used to analyze their implicit theatrical performance. Thanks to this approach, the analysis reveals significant facts on the performing aspect of the plays: the space in which the performance took place, the time frame within which performance was held, and the acting aspect through which the plays were communicated to the audience. Second, the textual analysis was employed for examining a broader social context in which the plays were written and performed. There, the findings on the technical aspects of the performance were used to analyze the hybrid position of Passion plays between civic theatre and religious performance. Finally, it shows that the ritualistic function of the genre, and the constitutive role of the audience in the performance help explaining some crucial features of Passion play genre, primarily related to their contextual variability. |
| Supervisor | Klaniczay, Gabor; Jaritz, Gerhard |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/krnic_marija.pdf |
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