The edge of Christendom on the early modern stage / Lisa Hopkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopkins, Lisa, 1962- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Late Tudor and Stuart drama

Late Tudor and Stuart Drama : Gender, Performance, and Material Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English drama.

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

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

Christianity and literature.

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

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

England.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

250 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter : Medieval Institute Publications, [2022]

Summary:

"Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented places where Christians came up against Turks, including Malta, Tunis, Hungary, and Armenia. Some forms of Christianity itself might seem alien, so the book also considers the interface between traditional Catholicism, new forms of Protestantism, and Greek and Russian orthodoxy. But it also finds that the concept of Christendom was under threat in other places, some much nearer to home. Edges of Christendom could be found in areas that were or had been pagan, such as Rome itself and the Danelaw, which once covered northern England; they could even be found in English homes and gardens, where imported foreign flowers and exotic new ingredients challenged the concept of what was native and natural"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The edge and the centre. "All places shall be hell that are not heaven" : the edge of Rome

Beautiful polecats : the living and the dead in Julius Caesar

Danger and demarcation in Massinger

Edges abroad. "Having passed Armenian deserts now" : Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great

Bears and fairies : A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night

The last plays and the edges of Christendom

The Politics of the rose : English histories and foreign flowers

Edges at Home. North by North-West : the Danelaw and the edge of Christendom

Let the right one in : edges of Christendom in Cavendish-Talbot houses.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [226]-243) and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781501520334

1501520334

OCLC:

1285486697

Publisher Number:

99993021446