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- Title: Two Saints' Plays/Conversion Plays from Bodleian Ms Digby 133.
- Author : Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Release Date : January 06, 2002
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 222 KB
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ABSTRACT Though The conversion of St. Paul and Mary Magdalene belong to the same genre and are in the same manuscript they illustrate the use of different dramaturgical devices. The former play is a processional drama being, sometimes, closely linked with religious ritual and then the audience is treated as congregation. The Poeta who begins and ends each part of the play called "station", directly addresses the audience inviting them to take part in the procession to reach the next place where the performance will continue. Thus he breaks the dramatic illusion and simultaneously links the life of the audience/congregation with the theatrical reality. The action of the play dealing mainly with one theme is simple. Mary Magdalene, on the other hand, was worked out on quite different principles, except for the use of comic effects. There is much less communication with the audience and the structure of the play is complex as there are subplots, various actions, journeys to and from distant places. Moreover, the playwright employs memory instead of enactment in an original way. It is when the crucifixion of Christ is only remembered and when it is recorded in a letter to the Roman emperor. Finally, more than one character in this play experience intense inner states, not rarely expressing their feelings by means of impressive imagery. Thus Mary Magdalene is artistically and technically a more developed play than is The conversion of St. Paul.