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Subject/Essay Author Location
MacDonald, Ann-Marie    
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning
Juliet): From Shakespearean Tragedy to
Postmodern Satyr Play

 Igor Djordjevic Volume 37, Issue 1,
Spring 2003
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MacKaye, Percy     
Percy MacKaye: Community Drama
and the Masque Tradition 		D. Heyward Brock
and James M. Welsh		 Volume 6, Issue 1,
Spring 1972
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Mactacio Abel    
The Medieval Plough Team on Stage:
Wordplay and Reality in the Towneley
Mactacio Abel


 Margaret Rogerson Volume 28, Issue 2,
Summer 1994
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A Mad World, My Masters    
The Trickster-Hero and Middleton's
A Mad World, My Masters 		William W. E. Slights Volume 3, Issue 2,
Summer 1969
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Magnyfycence    
Fansy and Foly: The Drama of Fools
in Magnyfycence 		Peter Happé Volume 27, Issue 4,
Winter 1993-94
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The Maid of Normandy    
Edmund Eyer's The Maid of Normandy;
or, Charlotte Corday in Anglo-Irish
Docudrama
view abstract		 Wendy C. Nielsen Volume 40, Issue 2,
Summer 2006
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The Maid's Tragedy    
Admirable Musicians: Women's Songs
in Othello and The Maid's Tragedy

 Rochelle Smith Volume 28, Issue 3,
Fall 1994
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Maître Guérin    
The Ending of A Doll House and
Augier's Maître Guérin 		Thomas F. Van Laan Volume 17, Issue 4,
Winter 1983-84
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Major Barbara    
Wagner and Shaw: Rheingold Motifs in
Major Barbara 		Robert Coskren Volume 14, Issue 1,
Spring 1980
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Makhadet El-Kohl    
Nonverbal Theatrical Elements in
Ntozake Shange's for colored girls…
and Intissar Abdel-Fatah's Makhadet
El-Kohl (The Kohl Pillow)
read first paragraph

Dalia El-Shayal Volume 37, Issue 3,4,
Fall/Winter 2003-04
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The Malcontent    
Temporizing as Pyrrhonizing in Marston's
The Malcontent
read first paragraph

William M. Hamlin Volume 34, Issue 3,
Fall 2000
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Mallarmé, Stéphane    
The Daughters of Herodias in Hérodiade,
Salomé, and A Full Moon in March 		Marilyn Gaddis Rose Volume 1, Issue 3,
Fall 1967
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The Man of Mode    
Play and Passion in The Man of Mode Derek Hughes Volume 15, Issue 3,
Fall 1981
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Mankind    
Mankind and Its Audience Lawrence M. Clopper Volume 8, Issue 4,
Winter 1974-75
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Marco Millions    
Taoism and O'Neill's Marco Millions James A. Robinson Volume 14, Issue 3,
Fall 1980
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Marlowe, Christopher    
Disorder in the House of God: Disrupted
Worship in Shakespeare and Others
Bruce Boehrer Volume 38, Issue 1,
Spring 2004
Doctor Faustus and Hamlet: Contrasting
Kinds of Christian Tragedy 		Thomas B. Stroup Volume 5, Issue 4,
Winter 1971-72
Marlowe's Edward II and
the Medieval Passion Play


 Patrick Ryan Volume 32, Issue 4,
Winter 1998-99
Marlowe's Travesty of Virgil: Dido
and Elizabethan Dreams of Empire
read first paragraph


 Donald Stump Volume 34, Issue 1,
Spring 2000
Matthew Parker's Pastoral Training and
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus 		Celia Barnes Volume 15, Issue 3,
Fall 1981
Ritual in Marlowe's Plays Thomas B. Stroup Volume 7, Issue 3,
Fall 1973
Tamburlaine "as fierce Achilles was" John Cutts Volume 1, Issue 2,
 Summer 1967

Unpardonable Sins: The Hazards of
Performative Language in the Tragic Cases
of Francesco Spiera and Doctor Faustus

 Daniel Gates Volume 38, Issue 1,
Spring 2004
The Voice of Marlowe's Tamburlaine in
Early Shakespeare


 Maurice Charney Volume 31, Issue 2,
Summer 1997
"You Talks Brave and Bold": The Origins
of an Elizabethan Stage Device 		Kenneth Friedenreich Volume 8, Issue 3,
Fall 1974
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Marquis de Sade    
From Cruelty to Theatre: Antonin Artaud
and the Marquis de Sade 		Franco Tonelli Volume 3, Issue 2,
Summer 1969
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Marston, John    
Antonio's Revenge: "Never more woe in
lesser plot was found" 		George L. Geckle Volume 6, Issue 4,
Winter 1972-73
Borrowings and the Authorial Domain:
Gostanzo, Polonius, and Marston's
Gonzago
view abstract

Charles Cathcart Volume 37, Issue 2,
Summer 2003
John Marston's Histriomastix
and the Golden Age 		George L. Geckle Volume 6, Issue 3,
Fall 1972
Temporizing as Pyrrhonizing in Marston's
The Malcontent
read first paragraph

William M. Hamlin Volume 34, Issue 3,
Fall 2000
Writing and Revenge: John Marston's
Histriomastix
view abstract		 James P. Bednarz Volume 36, Issue 1,2,
Spring/Summer 2002
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Marxism    
The Marxist Theater of Amiri Baraka W. D. E. Andrews Volume 18, Issue 2,
Summer 1984
The Theatre of Ruthless Metaphor:
Polish Theatre Between Marxism
and Existentialism 		Zbigniew Folejewski Volume 3, Issue 3,
Fall 1969

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Mary Magdalene    
Sovereignty in the Digby Mary Magdalene John W. Velz Volume 2, Issue 1,
Spring 1968
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Maslow, Abraham    
Ecstasy and Peak-Experience:
W. B. Yeats, Marghanita Laski,
and Abraham Maslow

 Natalie Crohn Schmitt Volume 28, Issue 2,
Summer 1994
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Masque Drama    
The Anonymous Masque-like Entertainment
in Egerton MS. 1994, and Richard Brome		 John Cutts Volume 1, Issue 4,
Winter 1967-68
The Masks of Cupid and Death Judith Dundas Volume 29, Issue 1,
Spiring 1995
The Masque of Hymen in As You Like It Marilyn L. Williamson Volume 2, Issue 4,
Winter 1968-69
Percy MacKaye: Community Drama and the
Masque Tradition		 Brock D. Heyward
and James M. Welsh		 Volume 6, Issue 1,
Spring 1972

Seventeenth-Century Illustrations of Three
Masques by Jonson		 John P. Cutts Volume 6, Issue 2,
Summer 1972

"Those Beautiful Characters of Sense":
Classical Deities and the Court Masque		 Judith Dundas Volume16, Issue 2,
Summer 1982
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Master Builder    
Nietzsche, Georg Brandes, and Ibsen's
Master Builder 		Michael W. Kaufman Volume 6, Issue 3,
Fall 1972
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Master Harold and the Boys    
"Master Harold" and the Bard:
Education and Succession in
Fugard and Shakespeare

 David E. Hoegberg Volume 29, Issue 4,
Winter 1995-96
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Medea    
Euripides in South Africa:
Medea and Demea


 Albert Wertheim Volume 29, Issue 3,
Fall 1995
Euripides' Medea: The Stranger
in the House

S. Georgia Nugent
 Volume 27, Issue 3,
Fall 1993
Trial and Terror: Medea Prima Facie Anthony Kubiak Volume 23, Issue 1,
Spring 1989
The Trope of Transformation in Medea:
A Noh Cycle
view abstract		 Loren Edelson Volume 37, Issue 1,
Spring 2003
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Medieval Drama    
Audience and Meaning in Two Medieval
Dramatic Realisms		 William F. Munson Volume 9, Issue 1,
Spring 1975
Code-Switching in Medieval
English Drama		 Hans-Jürgen Diller Volume 31, Issue 4,
Winter 1997-98
Comic Eschatology in the Chester
Coming of Antichrist		 Leslie Howard Martin Volume 5, Issue 3,
Fall 1971
Damnable Deconstructions: Vice
Language in the Interlude


 Alan Somerset Volume 31, Issue 4,
Winter 1997-98
European Influences and National Tradition in Medieval Hungarian Theater György E. Szönyi Volume 15, Issue 2,
Summer 1981
The Fleury Playbook and the Traditions
of Medieval Latin Drama 		C. Clifford Flanigan Volume 18, Issue 4,
Winter 1984-85
From Jerusalem to Damascus:
Bilocal Dramaturgy in Medieval and
Shakespearean Conversion Plays


 John W. Velz Volume 15, Issue 4,
Winter 1981-82
Herod the Great in Medieval
European Drama 		Miriam Anne Skey Volume 13, Issue 4,
Winter 1979-80

The Idea of a Person in Medieval
Morality Plays		 Natalie Crohn Schmitt Volume 12, Issue 1,
Spring 1978
Medieval Korean Drama:
The Pongsan Mask Dance
view abstract

Dongchoon Lee Vol 39, No. 3,4
Fall/Winter 2005-06
Laughter in Medieval English Drama:
A Critique of Modernizing and
Historical Analyses


 Hans-Jürgen Diller Volume 36, Issue 1,2,
Spring/Summer 2002
Mactacio Desdemonae: Medieval Scenic
Form in the Last Scene of Othello 		Cherrell Guilfoyle Volume 19, Issue 4,
Winter 1985-86
Marriage in Late Medieval German Easter
and Shrovetide Plays
view abstract

Albrecht Classen Volume 40, Issue 1,
Spring 2006
Medieval Drama: Diversity and Theatricality Clifford Davidson Volume 8, Issue 1,
Spring 1974
The Medieval Plough Team on Stage:
Wordplay and Reality in the Towneley
Mactacio Abel


 Margaret Rogerson Volume 28, Issue 2,
Summer 1994
The Melodies of the Medieval
Church-Dramas and Their Significance 		William L. Smolden Volume 2, Issue 3,
Fall 1968
The Middle English Resurrection Play
and Its Dramatic Antecedents		 Brawer, Robert A. Volume 8, Issue 1,
Spring 1974
Narrative Bible Cycles in Medieval
Art and Drama		 Patrick J. Collins Volume 9, Issue 2,
Summer 1975
The Narrator within the Performance:
Problems with Two Medieval "Plays" 		Bruce Moore Volume 22, Issue 1,
Spring 1988
Quod quaeritis, o discipuli Merle Fifield Volume 5, Issue 1,
Spring 1971
Sacred Blood and the Medieval Stage


 Clifford Davidson Volume 31, Issue 3,
Fall 1997

Some Clerical Notions of Dramatic
Decorum in Late Medieval England 		Marianne G. Briscoe Volume 19, Issue 1,
Spring 1985
"Some shall be pardon'd, and some
punished": Medieval Dramatic
Eschatology in Shakespeare


 John W. Velz Volume 26, Issue 4,
Winter 1992-93
Source of Order or Sovereign Lord:
God and the Pattern of Relationships
in Two Middle English "Fall of
Lucifer" Plays


 Jean Q. Seaton Volume 18, Issue 3,
Fall 1984
Techniques of Transcendence
in Medieval Drama 		Robert Edwards Volume 8, Issue 2,
Summer 1974
The Trinity in Medieval Drama Lynette R. Muir Volume 10, Issue 2,
Summer 1976
Two Medieval Cornish Versions of the
Creation of the World		 Robert Longsworth Volume 21, Issue 3,
Fall 1987
Typology, Criticism, and Medieval Drama:
Some Observations on Method 		Patrick J. Collins Volume 10, Issue 4,
Winter 1976-77
The Use of Architectural Space in
Medieval Music-Drama		 Dunbar H. Ogden Volume 8, Issue 1,
Spring 1974
"You Have Begun a Parlous Pleye":
The Nature and Limits of Dramatic
Mimesis as a Theme in Four Middle
English 'Fall of Lucifer' Cycle Plays


R. W. Hanning Volume 7, Issue 1,
Spring 1973
"Wee happy heardsmen here":
A Newly Discovered Shepherd's Carol
Possibly Belonging to a Medieval Pageant


 John P. Cutts Volume 18, Issue 3,
Fall 1984
The Weeping Mothers in Sumidigawa,
Curlew River, and Medieval
European Religious Plays
view abstract

 Mikio Ishii Vol 39, No. 3,4
Fall/Winter 2005-06
Women and Mimesis in Medieval and
Renaissance Somerset (and Beyond)


James Stokes Volume 27, Issue 2,
Summer 1993
Writing Before the Eye: The N-Town
Woman Taken in Adultery and the
Medieval Ministry Play 		Gail McMurray Gibson Volume 27, Issue 4,
Winter 1993-94
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Melville, Herman    
Ahab's Quenchless Feud: The Tragic
Vision In Shakespeare and Melville		 Richard B. Sewall Volume 1, Issue 3,
Fall 1967
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Menaechmi    
Menaechmi and the Renaissance Comedy
view abstract		 Richard F. Hardin Volume 37, Issue 3,4,
Fall/Winter 2003-04
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The Messiahs    
Liliane Atlan's The Messiahs
as Cosmic Theatre 		Bettina Knapp Volume 9, Issue 3,
Fall 1975
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Metadrama    
The Evolution of Shakespearean
Metadrama: Abel, Burkhardt,
and Calderwood

 Richard Fly Volume 20, Issue 2,
Summer 1986
Suicide as Message and Metadrama in
English Renaissance Tragedy 		Richard K. Sanderson Volume 26, Issue 3,
Fall 1992
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Mexican Theater    
The Revista Contemporáneos and the
Development of the Mexican Theater 		Edward J. Mullen Volume 4, Issue 4,
Winter 1970-71
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Meyerhold, Vsevold    
Meyerhold Meets Mei Lanfang: Staging
the Grotesque and the Beautiful

 Min Tian Volume 33, Issue 2,
Summer 1999
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Michel, Jean    
Social Disorder: Festive Celebration
and Jean Michel's Le Mistere de la
Passion JesusCrist

Sandra Billington Volume 29, Issue 2,
Summer 1995
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Middleton, Thomas    
The Changeling: Notes on Mannerism
in Dramatic Form 		Raymond J. Pentzell Volume 9, Issue 1,
Spring 1975
Fertility and Comic Form in
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside		 Arthur F. Marotti Volume 3, Issue 1,
Spring 1969
"Framing" as Collaborative Technique:
Two Middleton-Rowley Plays 		Michael E. Mooney Volume 13, Issue 2,
Summer 1979
Madhouse Optics: The Changeling Joseph M. Duffy Volume 8, Issue 2,
Summer 1974
Settling House in Middleton's
Women Beware Women


 Ann C. Christensen Volume 29, Issue 4,
Winter 1995-96
Thomas Middleton's Prodigal Play Leanore Lieblein Volume 10, Issue 1,
Spring 1976
The Trickster-Hero and Middleton's
A Mad World, My Masters 		William W. E. Slights Volume 3, Issue 2,
Summer 1969
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Miller, Arthur    
The Achievement of Arthur Miller Robert W. Corrigan Volume 2, Issue 3,
Fall 1968

An Enemy of the People: A Key to
Arthur Miller's Art and Ethics 		David Bronson Volume 2, Issue 4,
Winter 1968-69
The Defense of Psychoanalysis in Literature:
Long Day's Journey Into Night and
A View From The Bridge 		Albert Rothenberg
and Eugene D. Shapiro 		Volume 7, Issue 1,
Spring 1973
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Milton, John    
The Emotional Theater of Milton’s
Paradise Lost
view abstract

 Elizabeth Bradburn Volume 40, Issue 1,
Spring 2006
Milton, Dryden, and the
Ideology of Genre 		D. M. Rosenberg Volume 21, Issue 1,
Spring 1987
Renaissance Power and Stuart Dramaturgy: Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden John D. Cox Volume 22, Issue 4,
Winter 1988-89
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Mimesis    
Radical Mimesis:
The "Pinter Problem"  Revisited


David Z. Saltz Volume 26, Issue 3,
Fall 1992
Women and Mimesis in Medieval and
Renaissance Somerset (and Beyond) 		James Stokes Volume 27, Issue 2,
Summer 1993
"You Have Begun a Parlous Pleye":
The Nature and Limits of Dramatic
Mimesis as a Theme in Four Middle
English 'Fall of Lucifer' Cycle Plays

R. W. Hanning Volume 7, Issue 1,
Spring 1973
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Misanthropes    
A Dramatic History of Misanthropes David Konstan Volume 17, Issue 2,
Summer 1983
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The Miseries of Civil War    
'Hay for the Daughters!' Gender and
Patriarchy in The Miseries of Civil
War and Henry VI

Joyce Green
MacDonald 		Volume 24, Issue 3,
Fall 1990
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Le Mistere de la Passion JesusCrist    
Social Disorder: Festive Celebration
and Jean Michel's Le Mistere de la
Passion JesusCrist

Sandra Billington Volume 29, Issue 2,
Summer 1995
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Miss Julie    
The Dilemma of Naturalistic Tragedy:
Strindberg's Miss Julie

 Göran Stockenström Volume 38, Issue 1,
Spring 2004
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Modern Drama    
The Mirror as Stage Prop in
Modern Drama 		Thomas P. Adler Volume 14, Issue 4,
Winter 1980-81
The Modern British Homecoming Play Albert Wertheim Volume 19, Issue 2,
Summer 1985
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Molière    
Serving Don Juan: Decorum in
Tirso de Molina and Molière
view abstract

 Robert Bayliss Volume 40, Issue 2,
Summer 2006
The Actor and the Statue: Space,
Time, and Court Performance in
Molière's Dom Juan


Michael Spingler Volume 25, Issue 4,
Winter 1991-92
The King's Play: Censorship and the Politics
of Performance in Molière's Tartuffe		 Michael Spingler Volume 19, Issue 3,
Fall 1985
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Monologue    
Point of View in Drama: Diegetic
Monologue, Unreliable Narrators,
and The Author's Voice on Stage

 Brian Richardson Volume 22, Issue 3,
Fall 1988
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Monteverdi, Claudio    
Love and Infamy: The Paradox of
Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea 		Edward B. Savage Volume 4, Issue 3,
Fall 1970
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A Moon for the the Misbegotten    
O'Neill's Transcendence of Melodrama
in A Touch of the Poet and A Moon
for the Misbegotten 		Michael Manheim Volume 16, Issue 3,
Fall 1982
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Morality Plays    
The Community of Morality Plays Merle Fifield Volume 9, Issue 4,
Winter 1975-76
Costume in the Moralities: The Evidence
of East Anglian Art		 Ann Eljenholm Nichols Volume 20, Issue 4,
Winter 1986-87
Dramatic Allegory, or, Exploring the
Moral Play 		Joanne Spencer Kantrowitz Volume 7, Issue 1,
Spring 1973
L'Escole au deable: Tavern Scenes
in the Old French Moralité


 Alan Hindley Volume 33, Issue 4,
Winter 1999-2000
The Idea of a Person in Medieval
Morality Plays
 Natalie Crohn Schmitt Volume 12, Issue 1,
Spring 1978
The Morality Play: Ancestor of
Elizabethan Drama? 		John Wasson Volume 13, Issue 3,
Fall 1979
The Ordo Virtutum: Ancestor of the
English Moralities?


Robert Potter Volume 20, Issue 3,
Fall 1986
Ovid in the Andes: The New World
Morality Play, El rapto Proserpina
y sueño de Endimion

 Barbara H. Jaye Volume 28, Issue 4,
Winter 1994-95
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More, Sir Thomas    
More's Richard III and Jonson's
Richard Crookback and Sejanus 		Robert C. Evans Volume 24, Issue 2,
Summer 1990
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Mother Courage    
All in the Family: Mother Courage
and the Ideology in the Gestus		 Claire Gleitman Volume 25, Issue 2,
Summer 1991
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Mummings at Hertford    
Lydgate's Mummings and the Aristocratic
Resistance to Drama

 Robert Epstein Volume 36, Issue 3,4,  Fall/Winter 2002-03
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Murder in the Cathedral    
Evidence for Ambivalence of Motives in
Murder in the Cathedral		 John P. Cutts Volume 8, Issue 2,
Summer 1974
"Peace" and "Unbar the Door": T. S. Eliot's
Murder in the Cathedral and Some
Stoic Forebears

Edna G. Sharoni Volume 6, Issue 2,
Summer 1972
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Music Drama    
Chavittunātakam: Music-Drama in Kerala
read first paragraph
 Joly Puthussery Volume 37, Issue 3,4,
Fall/Winter 2003-04
How Music Matters: Some Songs
of Robert Johnson in the Plays of
Beaumont and Fletcher


 Catherine A. Henze Volume 34, Issue 1,
Spring 2000
Mysteries, Minstrels, and Music JoAnna Dutka Volume 8, Issue 1,
Spring 1974
The Playwright as Perfect Wagnerite:
Motifs from the Music Dramas in the
Theatre of Bernard Shaw 		Arthur Ganz Volume 13, Issue 3,
Fall 1979
The Use of Architectural Space in
Medieval Music-Drama		 Dunbar H. Ogden Volume 8, Issue 1,
Spring 1974
Visions with Voices: The Rhetoric of
Memory and Music in Liturgical Drama 		Jody Enders Volume 24, Issue 1,
Spring 1990
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Mystère d'Adam    
The Mystère d'Adam and
Christian Memory

 Jerome Mazzaro Volume 31, Issue 4,
Winter 1997-98
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Mystery Plays/Cycles    
An Interlude or Mystery Play by
William Ireland, 1795 		J. W. Robinson Volume 13, Issue 3,
Fall 1979
Anti-Semitism and the English
Mystery Plays 		Stephen Spector Volume 13, Issue 1,
Spring 1979
The Devil and Society in the
English Mystery Play 		John D. Cox Volume 28, Issue 4,
Winter 1994-95
Music and the English Mystery Plays JoAnna Dutka Volume 7, Issue 3,
Summer 1973

The Skill of Cain in the English
Mystery Cycles


Blair W. Boone Volume 16, Issue 2,
Summer 1982
Theatrical Pragmatics: The Actor-Audience
Relationship from the Mystery Cycles
to the Early Tudor Comedies

Hans-Jürgen Diller Volume 23, Issue 2,
Summer 1989

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