My Account
Log in Registration
All
Cart
Highlights
Fiction Books
Non-Fiction Books
Children's Books
Rare Books
Music
DVD & Blu-Ray
Video Games
Category
Wishlists
Cart
All
Free US shipping over $10
Trustpilot
Proud to be B-Corp

The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature Beatrice Groves (University of Oxford)

The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature By Beatrice Groves (University of Oxford)

The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature by Beatrice Groves (University of Oxford)

Reviews:
$34.99
Condition - New
Only 2 left
New

Summary

This book provides a fresh perspective on texts by Marlowe, Nashe, Shakespeare, Dekker and Milton by situating them within their historical and theological context. Its interdisciplinary and broad appeal will interest researchers and upper-level students of early modern literature and theatre, religious studies, intellectual history, Jewish studies and biblical studies.

The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature Summary

The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature by Beatrice Groves (University of Oxford)

This book explores the fall of Jerusalem and restores to its rightful place one of the key explanatory tropes of early modern English culture. Showing the importance of Jerusalem's destruction in sermons, ballads, puppet shows and provincial drama of the period, Beatrice Groves brings a new perspective to works by canonical authors such as Marlowe, Nashe, Shakespeare, Dekker and Milton. The volume also offers a historically compelling and wide-ranging account of major shifts in cultural attitudes towards Judaism by situating texts in their wider cultural and theological context. Groves examines the continuities and differences between medieval and early modern theatre, London as an imagined community and the way that narratives about Jerusalem and Judaism informed notions of English identity in the wake of the Reformation. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this volume will interest researchers and upper-level students of early modern literature, religious studies and theatre.

The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature Reviews

'This is an important book ... Groves demonstrates how political and theological discourses in late medieval and Renaissance England used and elaborated what James Shapiro has called 'Jewish questions' (the past) in order to 'answer English ones' (the present). ... This work is not only a major contribution to the understanding of early modern English Protestant elaborations on the destruction of Jerusalem, and of the use of historical narratives in the fashioning and understanding of the present: her work rereads early modern English literature to enhance the dialogue between the two sides of an (apparently) irreconcilable dichotomy.' Yaakov Mascetti, Renaissance Quarterly

About Beatrice Groves (University of Oxford)

Beatrice Groves is Research Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Trinity College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare 1592-1604 (2007) and has published articles in journals, such as Milton Studies, Shakespeare Survey, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England and Studies in Philology, and her essay in The Sixteenth Century Journal won the 2013 Sixteenth Century Society's Literature Prize. Her essays have also appeared in edited collections, including Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics (Cambridge, 2014) and Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion (Cambridge, 2015).

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern Literary Culture: 1. From Roman to Jew: Josephus, the Josippon and the destruction of Jerusalem in early modern culture; 2. Continuity and change: staging Jerusalem and staging 'the Jew'; 3. Preachers and players: the sack of Jerusalem from pulpit and stage; Part II. The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern Texts: 4. Marlowe's Jew of Malta and the destruction of Jerusalem; 5. The siege of Jerusalem and subversive rhetoric in Shakespeare's King John; 6. The fall of Jerusalem and the rise of a metropolis: Nashe's Christ's tears over Jerusalem, Dekker's plague pamphlets and maternal cannibalism in early modern London; 7. The New Jerusalem: Josephan portents and Milton's Paradise Lost; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Additional information

NLS9781107533851
9781107533851
1107533856
The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature by Beatrice Groves (University of Oxford)
Beatrice Groves (University of Oxford)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2017-10-26
281
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a new book - be the first to read this copy. With untouched pages and a perfect binding, your brand new copy is ready to be opened for the first time

Customer Reviews - The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature