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Supposing that story were new?!2 True: “The story of the Fall is an old one.” Knowing that the drama must change to continue to attract audiences, tales began to unfold in familiar locations with new settings and with proximate dates. Joining medieval myths with medieval libel, the fifteenth-century þe Play of þe Conversyon of Ser Jonathas þe Jewe by Myracle of þe Blyssed Sacrament (hereafter; þe Play of þe Conversyon) is such a newfangled play.3
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© 2011 Miriamne Ara Krummel
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Krummel, M.A. (2011). Impossible Desires and Fabulistic Dreams: Conversion in the Croxton Play. In: Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117181_7
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