Book section · January 1, 2023
The dead come to life in the bodies of the living – not just in resurrection but also in theatre. Corpus Christi theatre fully understands the complexity of this interrelationship in the palpable apparitions of Christ-the-actor to audiences in the Resurrec ...
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Book section · January 1, 2023
In the Christian tradition, faith, hope, and charity have God as their object and instigator, and they are the means by which we share in his nature. Hence they are called theological or deiform virtues. But during the Reformation Luther emphatically isola ...
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Book section · March 10, 2022
"Tragic Implication" looks at the links between the first and last essays in Must We Mean What We Say? Cavell's concept of acknowledgment as it emerges in the last two essays in this collection has received a fair amount of attention. This essay, by contra ...
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Book section · January 1, 2022
Wittgenstein did not address the question of history directly or extensively. But his vision of language is pervasively historical and has implications for the way we do literary history. This chapter examines the idea of use at the heart of Wittgenstein’s ...
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Book section · January 1, 2017
“Hamlet’s Ethics” argues that the critical question of delay in Hamlet has blinded readers to the play’s exploration of questions of agency and vision. The so-called indecision of Hamlet at the point of action is framed in the play, but in such a way as to ...
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Book section · January 1, 2009
“Middle English Drama” is the conventional, if misleading, category referring to the textual remnants of a vast, expansive, very imaginative performative culture which was largely non-textual. Drama bespeaks authors who write it, theaters in which it might ...
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