Religion and the Artifice of Jacobean and Caroline Drama
Author: Peter F. Mullany
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 200
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Author: Peter F. Mullany
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Williamson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1317024435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Rachel Fordyce
Publisher: G. K. Hall
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susannah Brietz Monta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-03-10
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780521844987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive comparison of the representations of early modern Protestant and Catholic martyrs.
Author: Imke Pannen
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 389971640X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMantic elements are manifold in the English drama of the Renaissance period: they are supernatural manifestations and have a prophetic, future-determining function within the dramatic plot, which can be difficult to discern. Addressing contemporaries of Shakespeare, this study interprets a representative number of revenge tragedies, among them The Spanish Tragedy, The White Devil, and The Revenger's Tragedy, to draw general conclusions about the use of mantic elements in this genre. The analysis of the cultural context and the functionalisation of mantic elements in revenge tragedy of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline era show their essential function in the construction of the plot. Mantic elements create and stimulate audience expectations. They are not only rhetoric decorum, but structural elements, and convey knowledge about the genre, the fate of which is determined by retaliation. An interpretation of revenge tragedy is only possible if mantic providentialism is taken into account.
Author: Ilse Born-Lechleitner
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E. Lingan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-19
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 113744861X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the religious foundations, political and social significance, and aesthetic aspects of the theatre created by the leaders of the Occult Revival. Lingan shows how theatre contributed to the fragmentation of Western religious culture and how contemporary theatre plays a part in the development of alternative, occult religions.
Author: Mark J. Lidman
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Schoenberg
Publisher: Literature Criticism from 1400
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780787652326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation Comprehensive critical coverage of the works of the greatest writers and thinkers of the late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Restoration eras. A cumulative title index is published separately (included in subscription).
Author: Krystan V. Douglas
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 600
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