Theatre and Holy Script Book

	Preface and Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Holy Space and Representational Place in the Tenth Century	11
2	"Action is Literal": Ritual Typology and "Ritual Arts"	22
3	Are the Rock Carvings of the North the First Sources of Theatre in Europe?	34
4	Strategies of the Heterogeneous in Ritual and Performance: Mallarme's "Livre" or the Rite of the Book	50
5	The Sacramental Aesthetics on Stage: The Cathedral Plays of Dorothy L. Sayers	61
6	The Son of the Dove and the Jewish Waiter	72
7	"Born Losers Comparing Notes" - Bible Quotation and Drama Construction in George Tabori's Plays	82
8	The Liturgical Theatre of the Holocaust on the Israeli Stage - Holy Scripture, Myth, Ritual	99
9	Religious Theatre in a Totalitarian Atheistic State: The Polish Experience	111
10	Dziady: A Mystery Play in the Modern Polish Theatre	128
11	A Divinity which Shapes Our Ends: Greek Comedy in a Secular Age	140
12	Thespis and Moses: The Jews and the Ancient Greek Theatre	149
13	Secular Rites in Jules Dassin's Film A Dream of Passion	159
14	Secular Definitions of 'Ritual': The Rocky Horror Phenomenon	171
15	Sermons in Stones	191
16	Masks and Disguises as an Expression of Anarchy in the Jewish Festival Theatre	203
17	Political Assassination, Sacrifice and Theatrical Re-enactment in Julius Caesar	213
18	"Our teachers break our hearts": Bruria, Theatre Company of Jerusalem	222
19	Myth and the Drama of the Soul	238
	Contributors	247
	Index	251