Writing the Reformation - Acts and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play

List of contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The ‘Marvellous Working’ of the Lord: Foxean History on Stage 2. Trial and Redemption: Authority on the Tragicomic Stage of History 3. ‘Only My Conscience’: Staging the Record of Conscience 4. Confounding the Mighty with the Weak: Staging a Popular Reformation 5. ‘Even Unto Many Godly Women’: Staging a Female Reformation 6. Foxean ‘Re-visions’ on the Jacobean Stage Bibliography Index

About the author

Marsha Robinson

Summary

First published in 2002, this work invests the post-Shakespearean history plays of the Jacobean era with new significance by recognizing the role they played in popularizing and re-appropriating Foxe's "Book of Martyrs", one of the most formative and culturally significant Reformation texts.

Product details

• Authors: Robinson, Marsha Robinson, Marsha S. Robinson, Robinson Marsha
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780815376194
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-7619-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General