The Protestant context of George Peele's "pleasant conceited" Old Wives Tale.

From: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

THE first eight decades of scholarship on The Old Wives Tale left us with a play that is a naive and pleasant conceited comedy, or a satire of romantic comedies, or a flawed representation of the language, methods, and ethos of folk literature. (1) However, in 1978, John Cox established as central to the play two related themes: the use of Eumenides' prophecies by some of the characters who, through the practice of charity, bring about the defeat of the evil conjurer Sacrapant. (2) Cox's article led directly to the most fruitful period of scholarship on the play at the beginning ...

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