SOURCE: “The Historical Pageant: The Rhetoric of Action,” in The Christian Tradition in Modern British Verse Drama: The Poetics of Sacramental Time, Rutgers University Press, 1967, pp. 58-63.
In the following excerpt, Spanos focuses on the religious pageant The Acts of Saint Peter.
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