This video highlights ideas about teaching an exemplum from an early 14th century Middle English text in tandem with a 1950s American Horror comic. Contains some depictions of violence. Part of the Medieval Meets Modern Series.
Video by Gina Brandolino
Video
Editions
Feldstein, Al, and Jack Davis. "Foul Play." The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear Vol. 4. Dark Horse Comics, 2017, pp. 37-44.
---. “Foul Play.” Foul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics. Harper Collins, 2005, pp. 83-89.
Furnivall, Frederick, ed. Robert of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne. EETS.OS 119 and 123 (reprinted as one volume). Boydell and Brewer, 2002. Also available online: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHA2735.0001.001
Sullens, Idelle, ed. Handlyng Synne. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1983.
Context and Analysis
Boyle, Leonard E. “Popular Piety in the Middle Ages: What Is Popular?” Florilegium 4 (1982): pp. 184-93.
Geissman, Grant. Foul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics. Harper Collins, 2005.
Hajdu, David. The Ten-Cent Plague. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2008.
Cite
Brandolino, Gina. “The Tale of the Bloody Child” and “Foul Play,” Middle Ages for Educators, December 27, 2020. Accessed[date]. https://middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/node/1371/