Protestantism and drama in early modern England / Adrian Streete.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Streete, Adrian.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

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.

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

Protestantism and literature--History.

Protestantism and literature.

Protestantism in literature.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 298 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Containing detailed reading of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe and Middleton, as well as poetry and prose, this book provides a major historical and critical reassessment of the relationship between early modern Protestantism and drama. Examining the complex and painful shift from late medieval religious culture to a society dominated by the ideas of the Reformers, Adrian Streete presents a fresh understanding of Reformed theology and the representation of early modern subjectivity. Through close analysis of major thinkers such as Augustine, William of Ockham, Erasmus, Luther and Calvin, the book argues for the profoundly Christological focus of Reformed theology and explores how this manifests itself in early modern drama. Moving beyond questions of authorial 'belief', Streete assesses Elizabethan and Jacobean drama's engagement with the challenges of the Reformation.

Contents:

Part I 31

1 Christ, subjectivity and representation in early modern discourse 33

2 Locating the subject: Erasmus and Luther 58

3 Representing the subject: Calvin, Christ and identity 80

4 Perception and fantasy in early modern Protestant discourse 110

Part II 127

5 Anti-drama, anti-church: debating the early modern theatre 129

6 Consummatum est: Calvinist exegesis, mimesis and Doctor Faustus 140

7 Shakespeare on Golgotha: political typology in Richard II 162

8 Mimesis, resistance and iconoclasm: resituating The Revenger's Tragedy 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780521760171

0521760178

OCLC:

391411266