Memory, Images, and the English Corpus Christi Drama

Memory, Images, and the English Corpus Christi Drama uniquely brings together memory theory, medieval and contemporary images, cognition, and the English Corpus Christi drama. Lerud argues that the role of frames or backgrounds is integral to the image and has been underestimated or misunderstood in the study of the drama. Lerud examines the use of doorways, arches, gates, and other significant town spaces in framing or setting off particular pageant images, to achieve a fuller understanding of the longevity of a drama often viewed as “Catholic” that nonetheless survived the dissolution of the monasteries and the turmoil of the early Reformation.

Theodore K. Lerud is Professor of English, Elmhurst College. He is the author of Social and Political Dimensions of the English Corpus Christi Drama and the co-editor of the Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States.