The Construction of the Wakefield Cycle (Literary Structures)
Language: English
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1974
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- Title
- The Construction of the Wakefield Cycle (Literary Structures)
- Author
- Gardner, Mr. John
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Publication year
- 1974
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0809306689
- ISBN 13
- 9780809306688
In this contribution to his Literary Structures series, John Gardner analyzes the Wakefield Corpus Christi play and provides a point of departure for a new aesthetic and historical study of the medieval pageant cycle.
Presenting a close play-by-play analysis of the Wakefield cycle as a whole, this important new study points out brilliant dramatic devices and jokes not immediately apparent to the modern eye. Gardner thus shows the controlling allegorical scheme which organizes the entire work from Creation to Last Judgment. He emphasizes the humor, social criticism, randy language, and characteristic stanza found throughout the plays and demonstrates that this coherence of technique indicates the cycle was shaped by a single man?the Wakefield Master.
Because it dramatizes the theme of salvation so coherently and powerfully, Gardner concludes that the Wakefield Corpus Christi play is one of the most ambitious and impressive literary works ever wrought by Englishmen.
Like other works in this distinguished new series, this innovative and practical book focuses on a great early writer and a major work which has not been adequately understood because its premises have been foreign to modern readers.
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John Gardner, scholar-poet-novelist, is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of the recent best seller The Sunlight Dialogues.
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