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...
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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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-252) and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Situating the Bible in Early Modern Drama; Part 1 Representing the Bible in Early Modern Drama: Material and Verbal Contexts; 2 Enter the Book: Reading the Bible on the Early Modern Stage; 3 Measuring up to Nebuchadnezzar: Biblical Presences in Shakespeare's Tragicomedies; 4 'Fatal Visions': The Image as Actor in Early Modern Tragedy; Part 2 Political Theology, the Bible and Drama; 5 Political Theology in George Buchanan's Baptistes; 6 The Ethics of Pardoning in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
7 Punishing Perjury in Love's Labour's LostPart 3 Biblical Readings On-stage: Pulpit, Household and Political Controversy; 8 'They repented at the preachyng of Ionas: and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here': A Looking Glass for London and England, Hosea and the Destruction of Jerusalem; 9 Marital Infidelity and Christian Self-Sacrifice in Thomas Heywood's How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad; 10 Reading the White Devil in Thomas Adams and John Webster; 11 Situating Political and Biblical Authority in Massinger and Field's The Fatal Dowry; 12 Afterword; Bibliography; Index
