Transgressive Language In Medieval English Drama: Signs of Challenge and Change
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Insults, abuse, oaths, scatological and bawdy language - these form the subject of Lynn Forest-Hill's study on bad language in the late Middle Ages. She demonstrates how, in mediaeval mystery plays and morality plays, dramatists used outrageous language with great sophistication and subtlety to create characterizations and define characters' moral status, to reflect on social conditions, to condemn social evils, and to comment upon sensitive cultural, political and religious topics of the 16th century.