Making A Play For God

Download or read book Making a Play for God written by Nerida Newbigin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Playful pleasure or devout piety? Why did Florentines invest so much effort in the performance of "sacre rappresentazioni", their dramatizations of the life of Christ and the saints, the history of Man's Salvation from the Creation to the Last Judgement, Old and New Testament stories, and miracles of the Virgin? Drawing on manuscript and printed plays, confraternal and communal archives, chronicles and letters, this study explores in fine detail and with careful attention to chronology the performance groups and their motives, and the financing, staging, and reception of their plays. Woven into this exploration is an account of the transmission of the plays first in manuscript and later in print, with woodcuts that have guaranteed their survival to the present day."--