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Article: Les Mysteres de la procession de Lille, vol. III: De Salomon aux Maccabees.(Editions of texts)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 2005
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Les Mysteres de la procession de Lille, vol. III: De Salomon aux Maccabees, ed. Alan Knight, Textes litteraires francais (Geneva: Droz, 2004). 638 pp. ISBN 2-600-00954-X. Sw. fr. 100.00. This third volume of the Lilie plays completes the series of Old Testament subjects arranged in biblical chronological order. Several of the plays use well-known subjects: Judith, Esther, Tobias, and Ahab appear here as in the drama of several countries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Other plays are more rare and the Siege de Samarie (from III Kings vi-vii) is not found ...