Nerida Newbigin's Making a Play for God: The Sacre Rappresentazioni of Renaissance Florence, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Toronto, 2021, two continuously paginated volumes totaling over a thousand pages, is the most comprehensive treatment of all known Florentine mystery and miracle plays and their playwrights, staging and reception, the summation of five decades of Newbigin's own research. Its strength is its unmatched scope and its author's standing as the leading specialist on this specific dramatic tradition. Its limit is that it is published through a research center's own monograph series rather than a general university press's own trade imprint, and its density and specialist focus make it a reference work more than an introductory account.
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Nerida Newbigin's Making a Play for God, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Toronto, 2021, the middle tier reflecting publication through a specialist research center's own monograph series rather than a general university press imprint, weighed against its standing, confirmed via its Church History and Oxford Library journal reviews, as the most comprehensive scholarly treatment of Renaissance Florence's sacred plays from the field's leading specialist. NotesNerida Newbigin is emeritus professor of Italian at the University of Sydney. This two volume, continuously paginated study (1039 pages, Essays and Studies 48, ISBN 978 0 7727 2501 1) is the standard modern scholarly survey of the surviving Florentine sacre rappresentazioni repertoire and its confraternal staging. Tier 2, a named scholar's monograph.
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AuthorNerida Newbigin
PublisherCentre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Toronto
Publication Year2021
Source Typeacademic monograph
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