Lieke Stelling (The Netherlands Universiteit Utrecht)

Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage. Discussing over forty dramatic pieces, the book introduces little known conversion plays and offers fresh readings of canonical drama, including Shakespeare's Othello, to reveal telling patterns in the stage's treatment of conversion and religious identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 229
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781108701822
• ISBN-10: 1108701825
• Artikelnr.: 60137047

Autorenporträt

Lieke Stelling is Assistant Professor in English at Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands. She has published articles on early modern literature in English Literary Renaissance and Shakespeare Jahrbuch, and co-edited The Turn of The Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature, with Harald Hendrix and Todd M. Richardson (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Spiritual Conversion: 1. 'Be by me converted': medieval and
reformation drama; 2. 'The whole summe of Christianitie': spiritual
conversion in protestant sermons; 3. ''Twas I but 'tis not I': dramatic
transformations of spiritual conversion; Part II. Interfaith Conversion: 4.
'More stable and perfect faith': religious diversification and the paradox
of interfaith conversion; 5. 'False runagates' and 'superlunatical
hypocrites': securing religious identity on the stage; 6. 'Most beautiful
pagan; most sweet Jew': preserving Christianity in authentic conversions;
7. 'For Christian shame': Othello's assimilation into Venice.