Early Modern Drama and the Bible
Contexts and Readings, 1570-1625
Editors: Streete, A. (Ed.)
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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
- Reviews
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"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
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction: Situating the Bible in Early Modern Drama
Pages 1-23
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Enter the Book: Reading the Bible on the Early Modern Stage
Pages 27-47
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Measuring up to Nebuchadnezzar: Biblical Presences in Shakespeare’s Tragicomedies
Pages 48-67
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‘Fatal Visions’: The Image as Actor in Early Modern Tragedy
Pages 68-86
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Political Theology in George Buchanan’s Baptistes
Pages 89-104
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Early Modern Drama and the Bible
- Book Subtitle
- Contexts and Readings, 1570-1625
- Editors
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- A. Streete
- Series Title
- Early Modern Literature in History
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-35866-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230358669
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-30109-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-33676-0
- Series ISSN
- 2634-5919
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 267
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