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Early Modern Drama and the Bible A. Streete

Early Modern Drama and the Bible By A. Streete

Early Modern Drama and the Bible by A. Streete


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Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible.

Early Modern Drama and the Bible Summary

Early Modern Drama and the Bible: Contexts and Readings, 1570-1625 by A. Streete

Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible.

Early Modern Drama and the Bible Reviews

This confident and seductive collection of essays is alive with a sense of the transformative power of performance. By inviting us to think about the Bible as stage property, philosophical concept, and as linguistic intervention, it establishes a bold new scholarly landscape for understanding early modern material, spiritual, and theatrical cultures. Julie Sanders, University of Nottingham, UK

At a time when it is fashionable to write and read religion out of, or at least minimize its impact on, the culture of earlier epochs, this study stands as a useful corrective, reminding us of the Bible's elevated position in early modern literature and drama,

and its capacity to navigate between the two. Philip Major, Modern Language Review

About A. Streete

PATRICIA CANNING Postdoctoral Teaching Assistant in the School of English, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland DERMOT CAVANAGH Senior Lecturer in English, Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK PAUL CEFALU Associate Professor of English, Department of English, Lafayette College, USA MICHAEL DAVIES Senior Lecturer in English, School of English, University of Liverpool, UK BEATRICE GROVES Lecturer in Renaissance English Literature, Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK HANNIBAL HAMLIN Associate Professor of English, Department of English, Ohio State University, USA JUDITH HUDSON PhD candidate at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK EMER MCMANUS PhD candidate, School of English, University College, Dublin, Ireland EMMA RHATIGAN Lecturer in English, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, UK HELEN WILCOX Professor of English, Bangor University, Wales

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Contributors 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 Bibliography Index

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NLS9781349336760
9781349336760
1349336769
Early Modern Drama and the Bible: Contexts and Readings, 1570-1625 by A. Streete
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Palgrave Macmillan
2012-01-01
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