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Black, Daisy. Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism, and Temporality in Medieval Biblical Drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.
Analyzes the interplay between race and temporality in medieval English Christian plays, with primary reference to competing temporalities between Christian and Jewish characters. The work uses the simultaneously multiple times of English Biblical dramas—which pit Christian temporal frames against those of a Jewish past—to explore the anti-Semitic work being done among nonelite playwrights and audiences in medieval England. The work engages conversations in the fields of temporality, social history, dramaturgy, and religion.