Ineke Murakami

Moral Play and Counterpublic

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Produktbeschreibung

In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and pol

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780367865801
• ISBN-10: 0367865807
• Artikelnr.: 58481946

Autorenporträt

Ineke Murakami is Assistant Professor of English at SUNY, Albany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Public, Scurrilous, and Profane": Moral Drama 1465-1599.
Chapter 1: Mankind: Publicizing the New Guise Chapter 2: William Wager:
Monstrous Ambition and the Public Weal Chapter 3: History as Allegory:
Chronicle Plays and the Bid for Public Office Chapter 4: Rhetorical Revolt:
Marlowe's Theater of the Public Enemy Chapter 5: Public Judgment and the
Virtue of Vice in Jonson's Sin City Chapter 6: Epilogue: Death Comes to
Moral Drama