Stages of engagement : drama and religion in post-Reformation England / edited by James D. Mardock and Kathryn R. McPherson.

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English
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  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Duquesne University Press, [2014]
  • ©2014
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vii, 351 pages ; 24 cm.

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    "Eleven essays explore the ways in which English drama reinforces, revises, resists, and reacts against the religious doctrine of the Reformation, and investigates how early modern drama was shaped by the religion of its producers and audiences"-- Provided by publisher.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: the religious turn's second wave / James D. Mardock
    • Dramas of doctrine. The reformed conscience: Woodes, Marlowe, and Shakespeare / William W.E. Slights
    • Stoicism, Calvinism, and determinism in Fulke Greville's Alaham / Daniel Cadman
    • The Jacob and Esau paradigm: Nicholas Udall's predestinarian problem comedy / Robert Hornback
    • Staging the politics of reform. Conciliarism and liberty in Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII / Adrian Streete
    • Martyrdom and militancy in Marlowe's Massacre at Paris / Elizabeth Pentland
    • Sacral objects and the measure of kingship in Shakespeare's Henry VI / Brian J. Harries
    • Performing Protestantism. Performing catechism in Measure for measure / Kathryn R. McPherson
    • Authorial anxieties and theatrical instability: John Bale's Biblical plays and Shakespeare and Wilkins's Pericles / Katherine A. Gillen
    • Counterfeiting faith: Middleton's theatrical reformation of Measure for measure / Terri Bourus
    • Confessional aesthetics and nostalgia. Theatricality, faith, and color imagery in Philip Massinger / Lisa Hopkins
    • Of ceremonies and Henry VIII / Jason Zysk
    • Afterword / John D. Cox.
    ISBN
    • 9780820704739 (hardcover)
    • 0820704733 (hardcover)
    LCCN
    2014001013
    OCLC
    874901509
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