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  1. The Bible and modern British drama
    from 1930 to the present-day
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

    "The Bible and Modern British Drama: 1930 to the Present-Day is the first full-length study to explore how playwrights in the modern period have adapted popular biblical stories such as Abraham and Isaac, Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, and the life... more

     

    "The Bible and Modern British Drama: 1930 to the Present-Day is the first full-length study to explore how playwrights in the modern period have adapted popular biblical stories such as Abraham and Isaac, Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, and the life and death of Jesus, for the stage. The book offers detailed and accessible interpretations of the work of well-known dramatists such as Christopher Fry, Howard Brenton, and Steven Berkoff, alongside the work of writers whose plays have been neglected in recent criticism, such as James Bridie and Laurence Housman. The drama is analyzed within the context of changes in religious belief and practice over the course of the modern period in Britain, comparing plays that approach the Bible from a traditional religious perspective with those that offer alternative viewpoints on the text, including the voices of gay, feminist, black, Jewish and Muslim dramatists. In doing so, the author offers a broad and in-depth exploration that is grounded in current scholarship, ranging from the past to present, across boundaries of race and gender. Ideal for students, researchers and general readers interested in understanding how the Bible has served as an important source text for British playwrights in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, The Bible and Modern British Drama shows how Bible-based drama has been influential in creating and disseminating ideas of what constitutes a 'good' life, both on an individual and social level"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429330124; 042933012X; 9781000691214; 1000691217; 9781000691368; 1000691365; 9781000691511; 1000691519
    Series: Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies
    Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies
    Subjects: Religious drama, English / 20th century / History and criticism; Religious drama, English / 21st century / History and criticism
    Scope: 1 online resource
  2. The Bible and modern British drama
    from 1930 to the present-day
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York

    Introduction -- Chapter 1 James Bridie's Apocryphal Plays -- Chapter 2 Laurence Housman's Biblical Drama -- Chapter 3 Christopher Fry's Old Testament Drama and Replacement Theology -- Chapter 4 From Dogma to Doubt: Dorothy L. Sayers's The Man Born to... more

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    Introduction -- Chapter 1 James Bridie's Apocryphal Plays -- Chapter 2 Laurence Housman's Biblical Drama -- Chapter 3 Christopher Fry's Old Testament Drama and Replacement Theology -- Chapter 4 From Dogma to Doubt: Dorothy L. Sayers's The Man Born to be King and Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar -- Chapter 5 The Origins of Christianity Reassessed -- Chapter 6 Bible, Church, Nation and Theatre -- Afterword

     

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  3. The Bible and modern British drama
    from 1930 to the present-day
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "The Bible and Modern British Drama: 1930 to the Present-Day is the first full-length study to explore how playwrights in the modern period have adapted popular biblical stories such as Abraham and Isaac, Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, and the life... more

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    "The Bible and Modern British Drama: 1930 to the Present-Day is the first full-length study to explore how playwrights in the modern period have adapted popular biblical stories such as Abraham and Isaac, Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, and the life and death of Jesus, for the stage. The book offers detailed and accessible interpretations of the work of well-known dramatists such as Christopher Fry, Howard Brenton, and Steven Berkoff, alongside the work of writers whose plays have been neglected in recent criticism, such as James Bridie and Laurence Housman. The drama is analyzed within the context of changes in religious belief and practice over the course of the modern period in Britain, comparing plays that approach the Bible from a traditional religious perspective with those that offer alternative viewpoints on the text, including the voices of gay, feminist, black, Jewish and Muslim dramatists. In doing so, the author offers a broad and in-depth exploration that is grounded in current scholarship, ranging from the past to present, across boundaries of race and gender. Ideal for students, researchers and general readers interested in understanding how the Bible has served as an important source text for British playwrights in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, The Bible and Modern British Drama shows how Bible-based drama has been influential in creating and disseminating ideas of what constitutes a 'good' life, both on an individual and social level"--...

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429330124; 042933012X; 9781000691214; 1000691217; 9781000691368; 1000691365; 9781000691511; 1000691519
    Series: Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies
    Subjects: Religious drama, English; Religious drama, English
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  4. The Bible and modern British drama
    from 1930 to the present-day
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York

    Introduction -- Chapter 1 James Bridie's Apocryphal Plays -- Chapter 2 Laurence Housman's Biblical Drama -- Chapter 3 Christopher Fry's Old Testament Drama and Replacement Theology -- Chapter 4 From Dogma to Doubt: Dorothy L. Sayers's The Man Born to... more

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    Introduction -- Chapter 1 James Bridie's Apocryphal Plays -- Chapter 2 Laurence Housman's Biblical Drama -- Chapter 3 Christopher Fry's Old Testament Drama and Replacement Theology -- Chapter 4 From Dogma to Doubt: Dorothy L. Sayers's The Man Born to be King and Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar -- Chapter 5 The Origins of Christianity Reassessed -- Chapter 6 Bible, Church, Nation and Theatre -- Afterword

     

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  5. The Bible and Modern British Drama
    From 1930 to the Present-Day
    Published: 2019; ©2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Milton

    Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Religion and modern British theatre: biblical adaptations -- The Bible and British identity -- Religion versus secularism... more

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    Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Religion and modern British theatre: biblical adaptations -- The Bible and British identity -- Religion versus secularism in modern Britain -- Contents and structure -- Notes -- 1. James Bridie's apocryphal plays -- Biblical comedy -- Tobias and the Angel -- Bridie's philo-Semitism -- Disorderly women -- Susannah and the Elders -- Notes -- 2. Laurence Housman's biblical drama -- Staging heterodoxy -- Debunking biblical myth -- Abraham and Isaac -- Repudiating Old Testament chauvinism -- Samuel the Kingmaker -- Housman's moral paradox -- Notes -- 3. Christopher Fry's Old Testament drama and replacement theology -- Christopher Fry's religious worldview and 'semitic discourse' -- The Exodus and the problem of nationalism -- Racial essentialism and the religious 'other' -- The co-option of Old Testament characters -- The dream of modern Christendom -- Notes -- 4. From dogma to doubt: Dorothy L. Sayers's The Man Born to be King and Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar -- Dorothy L. Sayers's staging of Christian dogma -- Responses to Sayers's God-Man -- Sayers's muscular Christianity -- The English Jesus -- Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's countercultural Jesus: Jesus Christ Superstar -- Demythologizing Jesus -- Judas and the politics of anti-Semitism -- Notes -- 5. The origins of Christianity reassessed -- Steven Berkoff's Messiah: Scenes from a Crucifixion -- Jesus the Jew -- The Gospel as propaganda -- Howard Brenton's Paul -- Christianity: the beautiful lie -- Matthew Hurt's The Man Jesus -- Postmodern Jesus -- The personal Jesus -- Notes -- 6. Bible, Church, nation, and theatre -- The twenty-first century British Bible -- Homosexuality and Christianity in modern Britain.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781000691214
    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies
    Subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (207 pages)
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