Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England

Klappentext Provides a reassessment of the relationship between Reformed theology and early modern literature! with analysis of key writers and thinkers. Zusammenfassung Drawing on a range of important thinkers and literary writers from the early modern period! this book argues for a new critical and historical understanding of the connections between early modern theology and drama. Streete demonstrates how widely and pervasively the ideas of Reformed theology impacted in early modern England. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I: 1. Christ, subjectivity and representation in early modern culture; 2. Locating the subject: Erasmus and Luther; 3. Representing the subject: Calvin, Christ and identity; 4. Perception and fantasy in early modern Protestant discourse; Part II: 5. Anti-drama, anti-Church: debating the early modern theatre; 6. Consummatum est: Calvinist exegesis, mimesis and Doctor Faustus; 7. Shakespeare on Golgotha: political typology in Richard II; 8. Mimesis, resistance and iconoclasm: resituating The Revenger's Tragedy; Afterword.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Streete, Adrian (Queen''s University Belfast) Streete
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2011
• EAN: 9781107402775
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40277-5
• No. of pages: 310
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies