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>Greetings! >I'm in the process of putting together my dissertation proposal. I >was wondering if anybody out there knows if this has been done >before. I would like to do an extensive character analysis of >female characters in UK cycle drama. I did one on Eve a few years >ago, and discovered that there were regional differences which >reflect, I thought, a cultural bias toward women: the Cornish >creates Eve as being Adam's peer, for instance. Beyond the basic >texts themselves, is anyone aware of any other work in this area? >Thanks, >Tad Atkinson >Ball State University There was a book published in 1996 that was dealing with the character of Mary in French and English drama : title : Contrary Marys in French and English Medieval drama. I don't remember the name of the author (I'm sure it's a woman). If you read French, there are the two articles of Jonathan Beck "Images de la femme dans le theatre medieval", in Le theatre populaire au Moyen Age et a la Renaissance, Barcelone, 1988. and "Sexe et genre dans l'hagiographie medievale : Les mysteres a saintes", in Le Moyen Francais, Montreal, 19 (1986), pp. 18-33. Mario Longtin PhD Student University of Edinburgh