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Title Early modern drama and the Bible : contexts and readings, 1570-1625 / edited by Adrian Streete
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Early modern literature in history
Early modern literature in history (Palgrave (Firm))
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
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SUBJECT Bible -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013818
Bible fast
Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
Bible and literature.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 -- English.
Literary studies: plays & playwrights -- English.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
Bible and literature
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Streete, Adrian.
ISBN 9780230358669
0230358667