Croxton Play of the Sacrament
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Christian
Christian Drama
Drama
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Jewish
Literary Studies
Medieval Studies
Middle English
Sacrament
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- ISBN 9781580441810
- Weight: 291g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2013
- Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Croxton Play of the Sacrament, which survives in a single sixteenth-century copy, dramatizes the physical abuse by five Muhammad-worshipping Syrian Jews of a Host, the bread consecrated by a priest during the Christian Mass. The text is the work of a playwright possessed of a tremendous theatrical imagination, notwithstanding his choice of subject matter.
John T. Sebastian is Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature at Loyola University New Orleans. His research interests include 14th- and 15th-century English religious literature and medieval mysticism.
