Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England - Indelible Characters

Informationen zum Autor DAVID COLEMAN is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Klappentext This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms, such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern subjectivity is founded. Coleman offers radical new ways of reading canonical Renaissance plays. Zusammenfassung This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms! such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern subjectivity is founded. Coleman offers radical new ways of reading canonical Renaissance plays. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Sacramental Communities in Pre-Reformation England: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament John Bale and the Politicisation of Sacramentality Mid-Tudor Drama and Sacramental Reform Interrogating Sacramentality: The Drama of Christopher Marlowe Sinful Subjects: Shakespearean Sacramentality Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: D Coleman, D. Coleman, David Coleman
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.10.2007
• EAN: 9780230535831
• ISBN: 978-0-230-53583-1
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Early Modern Literature in History; Early Modern Literature in His; Early Modern Literature in History; Early Modern Literature in His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Theater, B, Cultural History, European History, Social History, Social & cultural history, Theatre Studies, c 1500 onwards to present day, Civilization—History, Theatre and Performance Arts, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, Europe—History—1492-, History of Early Modern Europe, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Theatre and Performance Studies, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, England;reform;reformation;Renaissance;William Shakespeare