Download or read book The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama written by Elizabeth Williamson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama is the first book to present a detailed examination of early modern theatrical properties informed by the complexity of post-Reformation religious practice. The study explores the relationship between popular culture and theatrical performance by considering the social history and dramatic function of certain stage properties, addressing their role as objects of devotion, idolatry, and remembrance on the professional stage.
Download or read book The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama written by Elizabeth Williamson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama is the first book to present a detailed examination of early modern theatrical properties informed by the complexity of post-Reformation religious practice. Although English Protestant reformers set out to destroy all vestiges of Catholic idolatry, public theater companies frequently used stage properties to draw attention to the remnants of traditional religion as well as the persistent materiality of post-Reformation worship. The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama explores the relationship between popular culture and theatrical performance by considering the social history and dramatic function of these properties, addressing their role as objects of devotion, idolatry, and remembrance on the professional stage. Rather than being aligned with identifiably Catholic or Protestant values, the author reveals how religious stage properties functioned as fulcrums around which more subtle debates about the status of Christian worship played out. Given the relative lack of existing documentation on stage properties, The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama employs a wide range of source materials-including inventories published in the Records of Early English Drama (REED) volumes-to account for the material presence of these objects on the public stage. By combining historical research on popular religion with detailed readings of the scripts themselves, the book fills a gap in our knowledge about the physical qualities of the stage properties used in early modern productions. Tracing the theater's appropriation of highly charged religious properties, The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama provides a new framework for understanding the canonization of early modern plays, especially those of Shakespeare.
Download or read book Religion and Drama in Early Modern England written by Jane Hwang Degenhardt and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religion in Modern English Drama written by Gerald Weales and published by Anniversary Collection. This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Download or read book Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama written by Lieke Stelling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few subjects of the English stage have proved more alluring and enduring than religious conversion. The emergence of the Elizabethan theatre marked a profound shift in the way in which conversion was presented. If medieval drama had encouraged conversion without reservation, early Elizabethan plays started to question it. Considering over forty canonical and lesser known works, this study argues that more so than any other medium, early modern drama engaged with the question of the possibility of undergoing a radical transformation in faith and presented the period's understanding of it as fundamentally unsettled. Offering the first cross-religious exploration of conversion in early modern English drama, and presenting a new reading of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, Lieke Stelling reveals telling patterns in the stage's treatment of conversion and religious identity.
Download or read book Religion in Modern English Drama written by Gerald Clifford Weales and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religious Dissimulation and Early Modern Drama written by Kilian Schindler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kilian Schindler examines how playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe represented religious dissimulation on stage and argues that debates about the legitimacy of dissembling one's faith were closely bound up with early modern conceptions of theatricality. Considering both Catholic and Protestant perspectives on religious dissimulation in the absence of full toleration, Schindler demonstrates its ubiquity and urgency in early modern culture. By reconstructing the ideological undercurrents that inform both religious dissimulation and theatricality as a form of dissimulation, this book makes a case for the centrality of dissimulation in the religious politics of early modern drama. Lucid and original, this study is an important contribution to the understanding of early modern religious and literary culture.
Download or read book Marian Moments in Early Modern British Drama written by Regina Buccola and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerning itself with the complex interplay between iconoclasm against images of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England and stage representations that evoke various 'Marian moments' from the medieval, Catholic past, this collection answers the call for further investigation the complex relationship between the fraught religio-political culture of the period and the theater that it spawned. Contributors analyze the vestiges of Catholic tradition and culture that leak out in stage imagery, plot devices, and characterization.
Download or read book The English Religious Drama written by Katharine Lee Bates and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly exploration of medieval English drama, with a particular focus on the intersection of religion and performance. Bates draws on a wealth of historical and literary sources to shed light on the challenges and opportunities faced by playwrights and actors of the period. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth Century England written by D. Coleman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms, such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern subjectivity is founded. Coleman offers radical new ways of reading canonical Renaissance plays.
Download or read book Play time written by Daisy Black and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama. It charts conflicts staged between dramatic personae in plays that represent theological transitions, including the Incarnation, Flood, Nativity and Bethlehem slaughter. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with what it asserted was a superseded Jewish past, it asks how models of supersession and typology are subverted when placed in dramatic dialogue with characters who experience time differently. The book employs theories of gender, performance, anti-Semitism, queer theory and periodisation to complicate readings of early theatre’s biblical matriarchs and patriarchs. Dealing with frequently taught plays as well as less familiar material, the book is essential reading for specialist, undergraduate and postgraduate researchers working on medieval performance, gender and queer studies, Jewish-Christian studies and time.
Download or read book Apocalypse and Anti Catholicism in Seventeenth Century English Drama written by Adrian Streete and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the many and varied uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic language in seventeenth-century English drama. Adrian Streete argues that this rhetoric is not simply an expression of religious bigotry, nor is it only deployed at moments of political crisis. Rather, it is an adaptable and flexible language with national and international implications. It offers a measure of cohesion and order in a volatile century. By rethinking the relationship between theatre, theology and polemic, Streete shows how playwrights exploited these connections for a diverse range of political ends. Chapters focus on playwrights like Marston, Middleton, Massinger, Shirley, Dryden and Lee, and on a range of topics including imperialism, reason of state, commerce, prostitution, resistance, prophecy, church reform and liberty. Drawing on important recent work in religious and political history, this is a major re-interpretation of how and why religious ideas are debated in the early modern theatre.
Download or read book Changing Everything written by Erin Evelyn Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stage Converts written by Emily Carole George and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No concept in post-Reformation England was more fraught than conversion. Catholics and Protestant reformers fought over what conversion meant, how it was accomplished, who could achieve it, and how it related to salvation. They encouraged conversion, but distrusted converts; they feared the potential threat of forced conversion and yet used conversion as a justification for protocolonial conquest. By weaving together conversion scenes in plays from before, during, and after the Reformation, my dissertation illuminates how early modern drama could be simultaneously invested in the dominant ideologies of Protestant England and able to imaginatively experiment with the challenges, contingencies, and contradictions of post-Reformation religious identity. Diverging from recent scholarship that has emphasized early modern dramatic depictions of conversion as ironic or as invested in religious stability, I maintain that many later Elizabethan and Jacobean plays present peculiarly equivocal ways of understanding religious and moral change. Conversion scenes became conditional and exploratory as increasing state restrictions limited drama0́9s ability to serve as a communal expression of shared faith or a proselytizing instrument for new doctrines. These plays present religious identity as simultaneously ambiguous and genuine, unstable and true. Throughout this dissertation, I argue that dramatic scenes of conversion provide insight into the lived experience of post-Reformation faith, revealing theater as a communal space for audiences to explore moral difficulties, confront the tensions within their faiths, and practice dwelling in religious uncertainty.
Download or read book Moving Graces written by Jacqueline Beth Wylde and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one reach the hearts of others? This thesis situates the question in early modern England by investigating the activity of persuasion on the commercial stage, contending that, when plays sought to represent persuasion or be persuasive themselves, many of their tactics were borrowed from religious sources. The ongoing process of Reformation in England required an investment in persuasive methods for the purposes of religious education and conversion. Protestant reform may have instigated the persuasive practices, but the ensuing heterogeneity of belief enabled multiple confessional perspectives to compete for hearts and minds, creating a "culture of persuasion" that profoundly influenced early modern modes of communication, including dramatic ones. While religious conversion strategies could not be reproduced directly on the stage, I claim that playwrights made use of the form of such strategies. Overlaying these various forms with content relevant to the play, they capitalized on the persuasive meanings inherent in the forms without offending the censors or derailing the story. Chapter One begins with an investigation into the evangelical metrical psalms. I argue that the shape, sound and meaning of a musical psalm reverberates in a drinking song in The Shoemaker's Holiday, evoking an exploration of the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the creation of community identity. In Chapter Two, the Duke's interactions in the jail in Measure for Measure follow the same scripts as the private conferences associated with the Jesuits, prompting questions about the ethical limits of efficacious persuasion. Chapter Three explores the goodnight ballad, considering the appearance of one in Eastward Ho as central to the play's ongoing negotiation between sincerity and satire. My historical formalist examination of theatrical appearances of now-unfamiliar forms of religious persuasion contributes to conversations about the operation of religious meaning on the stage and the role of the commercial theatre in a religious culture. When found in various theatrical guises on the stage, these forms retain their persuasiveness and act as dramatic agents of political, social, institutional and personal strategy, deployed both within the dramatic arc of the story and beyond to work on the emotions of the audience.
Download or read book The Doctrine of Election and the Emergence of Elizabethan Tragedy written by Martha Tuck Rozett and published by . This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling argument for the link between Calvinism in English religious life and the rise of tragedy on the Elizabethan stage draws on a variety of material, including theological tracts, sermons, and dramatic works beginning with sixteenth-century morality plays and continuing through Marlowe's career and the beginning of Shakespeare's. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Unheard Prayer written by Joseph Sterrett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repeatedly Shakespeare dramatizes one who prays when no one is listening, interested, or even there. This study reads the scenario parallel to early modern anxieties surrounding prayer itself, suggesting a vision of religious syncretism Shakespeare imagines for his world.
