Streete, Adrian
Early Modern Drama and the Bible
1. Introduction: Situating the Bible in Early Modern Drama
1. Introduction: Situating the Bible in Early Modern Drama
Adrian Streete
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
Michael Davies
3. Measuring up to Nebuchadnezzar: Biblical Presences in Shakespeare’s Tragicomedies
Helen Wilcox
4. ‘Fatal Visions’: The Image as Actor in Early Modern Tragedy
Patricia Canning
Part 2. Political Theology, the Bible and Drama
5. Political Theology in George Buchanan’s
Dermot Cavanagh
6. The Ethics of Pardoning in Shakespeare’s
Paul Cefalu
7. Punishing Perjury in
Judith Hudson
Part 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’:
Beatrice Groves
9. Marital Infidelity and Christian Self-Sacrifice in Thomas Heywood’s
Emer McManus
10. Reading the White Devil in Thomas Adams and John Webster
Emma Rhatigan
11. Situating Political and Biblical Authority in Massinger and Field’s
Adrian Streete
12. Afterword
Hannibal Hamlin
Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Early Modern Europe, Philosophy of Religion, Modern History, British and Irish Literature
- Editor
- Streete, Adrian
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Early Modern Literature in History
- Page amount
- 277 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230358669
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-33676-0