Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama Catherine Tang and becoming a reflective

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Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama Catherine Tang and becoming a reflectiveThis title was first published in 2000: Insults, abuse, oaths, scatological and bawdy language these form the subject of Lynn Forest Hill's study on "bad" language in the late Middle Ages. She demonstrates how, in mediaeval mystery plays and morality plays, dramatists used outrageous language with great sophistication and subtlety to create characterizations and define characters' moral status, to reflect on social conditions, to condemn social evils,