Nativity of Jesus in later culture

Nativity of Jesus in later culture
This article deals with depictions of the Nativity of Jesus outside the fields of the figurative arts. For depictions in the fields of painting and sculpture, see Nativity of Jesus in art.

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Literature

  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Part One (1880)

Drama

Opera

  • Rutland Boughton, English composer and founder of the original Glastonbury Festival, wrote a very popular Nativity opera in 1915 called Bethlehem. In 1926, in sympathy with the General Strike and the miners' lockout, he restaged it in London, in modern dress, with Jesus born in a miner's cottage and Herod as the top-hatted capitalist, flanked by soldiers and police.[3]

Film

  • Ben-Hur 's prologue recounts the Nativity, and Balthasar (a major character) also recounts it in the third person later in the film (1959).
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) begins with the Nativity.
  • Monty Python's Life of Brian (1978) depicts the Magi arriving at the wrong stable and almost giving their gifts to the infant Brian, before realising their mistake and going next door to the stable where Jesus is.
  • The Nativity Story (2006)
  • Nativity (BBC Films; distributed by E1) scheduled to be released in UK cinemas on 4 December 2009.

Television

Music

  • "The Little Drummer Boy"

Notes

  1. ^ Hunt, J. (March 1975). "Moorat". The Musical Times 116 (1585): 228. doi:10.2307/959098. 
  2. ^ Quinn, Bernard J. (Spring, 1972). "The Politics of Despair versus the Politics of Hope: A Look at Bariona, Sartre's First pièce engagée". The French Review (Special Issue, No. 4, Studies on the French Theater): 95–105. 
  3. ^ Liner notes to Hyperion Records, Russell Boughton, The Immortal Hours



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