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This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Notes and Queries following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Notes and Queries (2008) 55 (2): 137-139 is available online at: http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/content/55/2/137.full

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  • In his interlinked studies ‘Communitas: The Play of Saints in Late Medieval and Tudor England’ and Drama, Play and Game, Lawrence Clopper has mounted a direct challenge to received ideas on early English drama.[1]

  • Chambers and Alfred Pollard, which claims that saint plays were the ‘leading and characteristic type of mediaeval drama’, and a key phase in the ‘transformation of the medieval into the humanist type of drama’, Clopper has argued that dramatised vitae and miracles were not widely known in England.[2]

  • Clopper lays out his position as follows: ‘We have lumped together a variety of lay and clerical activities held on saints’ feast days as saint plays when the records cannot support the contention that they are enactments of the vita of a saint...I remain skeptical that there were many saint plays in England from the later medieval period to the Reformation’

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In his interlinked studies ‘Communitas: The Play of Saints in Late Medieval and Tudor England’ and Drama, Play and Game, Lawrence Clopper has mounted a direct challenge to received ideas on early English drama.[1]. MARY OF NEMEGEN, LAWRENCE CLOPPER AND THE ENGLISH SAINT PLAY

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