Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
Series |
Early modern literature in history |
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Early modern literature in history (Palgrave (Firm))
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Contents |
Introduction: Situating the Bible in Early Modern Drama; A. Streete -- PART I: REPRESENTING THE BIBLE IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA: MATERIAL AND VERBAL CONTEXTS -- Enter The Book: Reading the Bible on the Early Modern Stage; M. Davies -- Measuring up to Nebuchadnezzar: Biblical Presences in Shakespeare's Tragicomedies; H. Wilcox -- Fatal Visions: The Image as Actor in Early Modern Tragedy; P. Canning -- PART II: POLITICAL THEOLOGY, THE BIBLE AND DRAMA -- Political Theology in George Buchanan's Baptistes; D. Cavanagh -- The Ethics of Pardoning in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure; P. Cefalu -- Punishing Perjury in Love's Labour's Lost; J. Hudson -- PART III: BIBLICAL READINGS ON STAGE: PULPIT, HOUSEHOLD AND POLITICAL CONTROVERSY -- 'They repented at the preachyng of Ionas: and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here': A Looking Glass for London and England, Hosea and the Destruction of Jerusalem; B. Groves -- Marital Infidelity and Christian Self-Sacrifice in Thomas Heywood's How a Good Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad; E. McManus -- Reading the White Devil in Thomas Adams and John Webster; E. Rhatigan -- Situating Political and Biblical Authority in Massinger and Field's The Fatal Dowry; A. Streete -- Afterword; H. Hamlin |
Summary |
Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection of essays examines the extensive and pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage and considers a range of plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, Webster, Massinger and Heywood. The introduction situates the religious, political and ideological contexts within which the relationship between stage and book was negotiated. The individual essays then explore a variety of dramatic encounters with scripture, ranging from material and verbal presences, iconoclasm, political theology, the Bible and the law, the domestic, the religious and political controversy. In this way, the capacious and widespread dramatic engagement with the early modern Bible is reconsidered. These essays offer fresh and exciting readings of early modern drama by resituating the theatre as a site of public and communal engagement with, and interrogation of, scripture |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Bible -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013818
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Bible fast |
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
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Bible and literature.
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 -- English.
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights -- English.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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Bible and literature
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
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Literature
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Streete, Adrian.
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ISBN |
9780230358669 |
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0230358667 |
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