Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England

Indelible Characters
2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-349-35848-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Reihe: Early Modern Literature in History

This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms, such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern subjectivity is founded. Coleman offers radical new ways of reading canonical Renaissance plays.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coleman, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction Sacramental Communities in Pre-Reformation England: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament John Bale and the Politicisation of Sacramentality Mid-Tudor Drama and Sacramental Reform Interrogating Sacramentality: The Drama of Christopher Marlowe Sinful Subjects: Shakespearean Sacramentality Works Cited Index

Über Autor(innen)

DAVID COLEMAN is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Nottingham Trent University, UK.