Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 9527
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Evans , Ruth.
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  • Title: When a Body Meets a Body: Fergus and Mary in the York Cycle [argues that the staging and audience reaction to the "other" embodied by the crossdressing actor as Mary and the feminized figure of Fergus the Jew play upon complex symbolisms of gender and social group].
  • Source: New Medieval Literatures 1, ( 1997): Pages 193 - 212.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Body Jews in Literature Literature- Drama Mary, Virgin, Saint in LIterature Women in Literature York Plays- Death, Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 15
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Wales, Cardiff
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  • Year of Publication: 1997.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 14653737