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Article: Theresa Coletti, Mary Magdalene and the Drama of the Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 2005
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Theresa Coletti, Mary Magdalene and the Drama of the Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England, The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). xiii + 342 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3800-01. $59-95.
Mary Magdalene is very much in vogue these days. Pushed into the limelight by the success of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, the elusive saint has recently become the object of much public scrutiny: indeed, numerous articles in the popular press, investigative television programmes, and elaborate websites confirm that a cottage industry has developed to explain the saint's historical importance, to say nothing of her long-lived ...