The renaissance of the saints after reform / Gina M. Di Salvo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di Salvo, Gina M., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--Themes, motives.

English drama.

English drama--17th century--Themes, motives.

Christian saints in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

The age of miracles was not yet past on the Shakespearean stage. In this study of the English saint play across the Reformation divide, 'The Renaissance of the Saints after Reform' recovers the surprisingly long theatrical life of the saints from a tenth-century monastery to the Restoration stage. Through a reassessment of archival records of performance and religious change, this book challenges the established history of the saint play as a product of medieval devotional culture that ended with the national conversion to Protestantism during the Reformation.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Contents

Abbreviations

Textual Conventions and Citations

Introduction: Against Iconoclasm

1. The Archives of Performance and Sacred Time

2. Devils in the Details

3. Acts of Translation

4. Old Legends of England

5. Devices of Virgin Martyrdom

Epilogue: Look Up, Look Up

Note to Appendices 1 and 2

Appendix 1: Chronological Table of Saint Plays

Appendix 2: Table of Saints in Liturgical Calendars

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 31, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Di Salvo, Gina M. The Renaissance of the Saints after Reform

ISBN:

0-19-195664-3

0-19-268995-9

0-19-268996-7