 | The Digby Mary Magdalene Play Subjects: Mary Magdalene Saint -- Drama; Mysteries and miracle-plays English; Christian drama English (Middle); Christian saints in literature; The Digby Play of Mary Magdalene is a rare, surviving example of the Middle English saint play. It provides a window on the deep embedding of biblical drama and performance in late medieval devotional practices, social aspiration and critique, and religious discourses. Fully annotated and extensively glossed, this edition adds to the METS Drama series an essential resource for the study of late medieval English religious drama. Theresa Coletti is Professor of English at the University of Maryland; she is the author of Naming the Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs, and Modern Theory and Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England. |
