Which means were employed in religious plays to convince audiences of their religious and political messages? This comparatist study makes use of an innovative methodology in order to examine how passion plays and eschatological plays in the German- and French-speaking worlds construed and perpetuated anti-Jewish and anti-protestant tropes and stereotypes, and utilized authority for the legitimation purposes.

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Carlotta Posth, University of Freiburg, Germany.