The play of paradox : stage and sermon in Renaissance England / Bryan Crockett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crockett, Bryan.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Christianity and literature--England--History--16th century.

Christianity and literature.

Sermons, English.

Preaching.

History.

England.

Christianity and literature--England--History--17th century.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

Preaching--England--History--16th century.

Preaching--England--History--17th century.

Paradox--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Paradox.

Sermons, English--History and criticism.

Theater--England--History--16th century.

Theater.

Theater--England--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

x, 213 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1995]

Summary:

The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England is a wide-ranging investigation of Tudor/Stuart drama, Reformation preaching, and the relations between the two. The cross-fertilization between the two kinds of performance engendered among audiences a ready receptivity to the rhetorical use of paradox. The two modes similarly capitalized on characteristic Renaissance syntheses of magic, drama, and religion to develop strategies for negotiating state control. In chapters that set comedies and tragedies by Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster, and others side by side with sermons by Hooker, Andrewes, Donne, and popular preachers whose works have not been reprinted since the early seventeenth century, Bryan Crockett argues that stage and pulpit performances elicited similar responses to the political and theological divisions marked by the incessant polemics of the age.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Given to the Penn Libraries by Margy Ellin Meyerson in memory of her husband, President Emeritus Martin Meyerson.

ISBN:

0812233166

OCLC:

32924167