ENGL 221 Lecture Notes - Guild, Middle Ages, The Carpenters
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The water carriers: these plays had an educational role. Many great authors learned about these stories from the plays themselves. The audience was largely illiterate: typology: the connection between one character and another. type: noah"s flood is often prefiguring the baptism of jesus. Particularly interesting considering how dangerous extra-biblical material could be to an illiterate and impressionable audience, possibly thinking its cannon: in regards to the york crucifixion, we never seen jesus" expression because he is lying horizontal on the ground. The carpenters are concerned with their craft arguing about where the nail holes are and not giving any attention to the man in the middle. In the middle ages, it would have been interesting to see your neighbors and o friends, the very people who you live amongst, joking about their occupation as they. nail jesus, a man whom the audience cannot see, and perhaps cannot empathize with, to the cross.
