Elizabeth Williamson

Religion and Drama in Early Modern England

The Performance of Religion on the Renaissance Stage
Herausgeber: Degenhardt, Jane Hwang

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the plays of Shakespeare as well as a range of other playwrights, this title explores the material conditions of performance, the intricate resonances between dramatic performance and religious ceremonies, and the multiple valences of religious references in early modern plays.

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Reassessing the relationship between religion and drama in early modern England, this collection explores the commercial theater's reframing of religious culture. Essays foreground the material conditions of performance, the resonances between theatrical and religious rituals, and the multiple valences of religious allusions on the stage. Discussions of both Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean drama reveal the theater's broad interpretation of Christian practice, as well as its engagement with Islam, Judaism and paganism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781409409021
• ISBN-10: 1409409023
• Artikelnr.: 41244271

Autorenporträt

Jane Hwang Degenhardt is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage (2010). Elizabeth Williamson is Associate Professor of English at the Evergreen State College and the author of The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Theatrical Materiality and Religious Effects
Chapter 1: The Idolatrous Nose: Incense on the Early Modern Stage
Chapter 2: Singing a New Song in The Shoemaker's Holiday
Chapter 3: "Looking Jewish" on the Early Modern Stage
Chapter 4: Muslim Conversion and Circumcision as Theater
Part II: Intersections of Popular Theater and Religious Culture
Chapter 5: Popular Worship and Visual Paradigms in Love's Labor's Lost
Chapter 6: "It is requir'd you do awake your faith": Belief in Shakespeare's Theater
Chapter 7: Archbishop Whitgift and the Plague in Thomas Nashe's Summer's Last Will and Testament
Chapter 8: "Handling Religion in the Style of the Stage": Performing the Marprelate Controversy
Part III: Beyond Allusion and Ideology
Chapter 9: Martyr Acts: Playing with Foxe's Martyrs on the Public Stage
Chapter 10: "The Juice of Egypt's Grape": Plutarch, Syncretism, and Antony and Cleopatra
Chapter 11: Paul Shakespeare: Exegetical Exercises
Part IV: Coda
Chapter 12: Claudius at Prayer