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Early Modern Drama and the Bible

Contexts and Readings, 1570-1625

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Adrian Streete

    1. School of English, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK

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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Situating the Bible in Early Modern Drama

    1. Introduction: Situating the Bible in Early Modern Drama

      • Adrian Streete
      Pages 1-23

  3. Representing the Bible in Early Modern Drama: Material and Verbal Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Enter the Book: Reading the Bible on the Early Modern Stage

      • Michael Davies
      Pages 27-47

    3. Measuring up to Nebuchadnezzar: Biblical Presences in Shakespeare’s Tragicomedies

      • Helen Wilcox
      Pages 48-67

    4. ‘Fatal Visions’: The Image as Actor in Early Modern Tragedy

      • Patricia Canning
      Pages 68-86

  4. Political Theology, the Bible and Drama

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Political Theology in George Buchanan’s Baptistes

      • Dermot Cavanagh
      Pages 89-104

    3. The Ethics of Pardoning in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure

      • Paul Cefalu
      Pages 105-117

    4. Punishing Perjury in Love’s Labour’s Lost

      • Judith Hudson
      Pages 118-136

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 230-266
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About this book

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.

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

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of English, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK

    Adrian Streete

About the editor

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

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