Bare Ruined Choirs - Sacred Spaces in Four Early Modern Plays

The book discusses the demarcation of secular and sacred territory in early modern English drama. It focuses primarily on four plays, Thorney Abbey, A Knack to Know a Knave, A Shoemaker a Gentleman and The Lovesick King, but puts these in dialogue with Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and Doctor Faustus.

About the author

Lisa Hopkins is Professor Emerita of English at Sheffield Hallam University. She is a co-editor of Journal of Marlowe Studies and of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, and a series editor of Arden Critical Readers and Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Hopkins
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.07.2025
• EAN: 9781839995118
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-511-8
• No. of pages: 150
• Series: Anthem Impact; Anthem Studies in Critical Literary Geography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600