Abstract
The presence of local Cornish places-names in medieval Cornish drama on biblical themes is perhaps the most salient feature of these texts. This paper suggest that the deployment of place-names from the locality of performance must be understood in the context of textual largesses for good or evil services from which these localities take on moral valuations. Within the context of a semiotic ideology of medieval realism, gifts of Cornish land in biblical drama thus serves metapragmatically to mediate between cosmological order of the text and the actual order of the context of performance, strongly regimenting the possible contexts of performance and imbuing the context with transcendent values. The parochial locality of the plays is thus performatively transformed by opposing the immediate locality of regions (associated with good biblical characters) to more distant regions (associated with evil biblical characters).
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