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A sinner-saint who embraced then renounced sexual and worldly pleasures; a woman who, through her attachment to Jesus, embodied both erotic and sacred power; a symbol of penance and an exemplar of contemplative and passionate devotion: perhaps no figure stood closer to the center of late medieval debates about the sources of spiritual authority and women's contribution to salvation history than did Mary Magdalene, and perhaps nowhere in later medieval England was cultural preoccupation with the Magdalene stronger than in fifteenth-century East Anglia. Looking to East Anglian texts including the N-Town Plays, The Book of Margery Kempe, The Revelations of Julian of Norwich, and Bokenham's Legend of Holy Women, Theresa Coletti explores how the gendered symbol of Mary Magdalene mediates tensions between masculine and feminine spiritual power, institutional and individual modes of religious expression, and authorized and unauthorized forms of revelation and sacred speech. Using the Digby play Mary Magdalene as her touchstone, Coletti engages a wide variety of textual and visual resources to make evident the discursive and material ties of East Anglian dramatic texts and feminine religion to broader traditions of cultural commentary and representation. In bringing the disciplinary perspectives of literary history and criticism, gender studies, and social and religious history to bear on specific local instances of dramatic practice, Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints highlights the relevance of Middle English dramatic discourse to the dynamic religious climate of late medieval England. In doing so, the book decisively challenges the marginalization of drama within medieval English studies, elucidates vernacular theater's kinship with influential late medieval religious texts and institutions, and articulates the changing possibilities for sacred representation in the decades before the Reformation.

Old English literature --- Christian church history --- Mary Magdalene --- anno 1200-1499 --- Christelijke heiligen in de literatuur --- Christian saints in literature --- Femme (Théologie chrétienne) dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la poésie --- Femmes dans le théâtre --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Saints chrétiens dans la littérature --- Seksuele rolpatronen in de literatuur --- Sex role in literature --- Vrouw (Christelijke theologie) in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de poëzie --- Vrouwen in het toneel --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in literature --- Women in poetry --- Mysteries and miracle-plays, English --- Theater --- Christianity and literature --- Women and literature --- English drama --- Christian hagiography --- Christian saints in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Mystères et miracles anglais --- Théâtre --- Christianisme et littérature --- Femmes et littérature --- Théâtre anglais --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Mary Magdalene, --- In literature. --- Mystères et miracles anglais --- Théâtre --- Christianisme et littérature --- Femmes et littérature --- Théâtre anglais --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Saints chrétiens dans la littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- In literature --- Mysteries and miracle plays [English ] --- History and criticism --- England --- Medieval, 500-1500 --- To 1500 --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Mysteries and miracle plays, English --- Cultural Studies. --- Gender Studies. --- Literature. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies. --- Religion. --- Religious Studies. --- Women's Studies.

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