Early Modern Drama and the Bible by A Streete

Early Modern Drama and the Bible by A Streete

Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible.

"This confident and seductive collection of essays is alive with a sense of the transformative power of performanceBy inviting us to think about the Bible as stage property, philosophical concept, and as linguistic intervention, it establishes a bold new scholarly landscape for understanding early modern material, spiritual, and theatrical cultures." Julie Sanders, University of Nottingham, UK

"At a time when it is fashionable to write and read religion out of, or at least minimize its impact on, the culture of earlier epochs, this study stands as a useful corrective, reminding us of the Bible's elevated position in early modern literature and drama,

and its capacity to navigate between the two." Philip Major, Modern Language Review

PATRICIA CANNING Postdoctoral Teaching Assistant in the School of English, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland DERMOT CAVANAGH Senior Lecturer in English, Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK PAUL CEFALU Associate Professor of English, Department of English, Lafayette College, USA MICHAEL DAVIES Senior Lecturer in English, School of English, University of Liverpool, UK BEATRICE GROVES Lecturer in Renaissance English Literature, Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK HANNIBAL HAMLIN Associate Professor of English, Department of English, Ohio State University, USA JUDITH HUDSON PhD candidate at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK EMER MCMANUS PhD candidate, School of English, University College, Dublin, Ireland EMMA RHATIGAN Lecturer in English, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, UK HELEN WILCOX Professor of English, Bangor University, Wales

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ISBN 13	9781349336760
ISBN 10	1349336769
Title	Early Modern Drama and the Bible
Author	A Streete
Series	Early Modern Literature In History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	2012-01-01
Number of pages	267
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