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1 online resource (xviii, 252 pages) |
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Introduction: After Strange Gods: the Making of Christ and his Doubles -- The Orthodoxy of Heresy -- From Script to Scripture-- The Gospel Truth -- Christ as Antichrist -- The Sign of Jonah -- Salvation through Antichrist -- Lying Likenesses: Typology and the Medieval Miracula -- Imago in Evangelio --The Typological Image -- Ad Imaginem in the York Cycle -- Miracula -- Salvaging the Audience, or Christ as Antichrist Redux -- Antichrist and Antitheatricalism -- The Chester Antichrist -- The Anagogical Promise of Art -- Blood Money: Antichristian Economics and the Drama of the Sacraments -- The Root of All Evil -- Blinde Reckeninge (Everyman) -- Judas Superstar -- The Offertory as Price of Admission -- The Miracle at Croxton -- Coda: the Blood Money of Mankind -- Vicarious Criminal: Christ as Representative -- Antigraphy (the Making of the Septuagint -- Christ and Vicarious Substitution -- Christian Appropriation -- The Deceiver Deceived and the Cycles' Descent -- Virgin Birth, or the Septuagint Redux -- The Curious Sovereignty of Art: Marlowe's Sacred Counterfeits -- Marlowe the Antichrist -- Jesus Barabbas, Son of God -- Apostolic Conquest (Tamburlaine and Paul) -- Faustus Magus |
| Summary |
Crossing the divide between medieval and Renaissance theater while drawing heavily on New Testament scholarship, Patristics, and research into the apocrypha, this text proposes a wholesale rereading of pre-Shakespearean drama |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 23, 2018) |
| Subject |
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 -- Religion
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Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 -- Religion
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Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 fast |
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Marlowe, Christopher. swd |
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
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Christian drama, English -- History and criticism
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Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Antichrist in literature.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Antichrist in literature
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Christian drama, English
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Christianity and literature
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
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Religion
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Antichrist Motiv
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Geistliches Drama
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Toneel.
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Antichrist.
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England
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Engeland.
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Englisch.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007018959 |
| ISBN |
9780801463549 |
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0801463548 |
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