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Foreword Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Acknowledgements Introduction: function and structure Part I. The End Brought Near: The Liturgical Visitatio Sepulchri and the vernacular Easter plays 1. Liturgical celebration and allegorization of the mass: the Vistiatio Sepulchri between Kerygma and myth 2. From the Vistiatio Sepulchri to the Descensus ad Inferos: Jesus' descent into hell as cardinal function 3. from the Visitatio Sepulchri to the mythical Ostarun: the Marys play as catalyzer 4. From glad tidings to the Risus Paschalis: the Easter play and ritualistic laughter Part II. The Inferred Beginning: The Adam Play: 5. The fall in the ambivalence of dramatic and substantial dualism 6. Figural events in the Locus and archetypal events on the Platea 7. The play's dualism and dogmatics' exclusions: Anselm of Canterbury's Cur Deus Homo Part III. The Archaic Middle: The Passion Play: 8. The Passion Play between mythologeme and theologumenon 9. Jesus as scapegoat I: Compassio and ritual graphicness 10. Jesus as scapegoat II: typology as desymbolized pseudocommunication 11. Jesus as scapegoat III: nominalist theater - archaic sacrifice play Conclusion: 'play' as a class of function equivalents Afterword Notes Bibliography.