Early Modern Drama and the Bible: Contexts and Readings, 1570–1625

✍ Scribed by Adrian Streete (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 275
Series: Early Modern Literature in History
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Situating the Bible in Early Modern Drama....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Enter the Book: Reading the Bible on the Early Modern Stage....Pages 27-47
Measuring up to Nebuchadnezzar: Biblical Presences in Shakespeare’s Tragicomedies....Pages 48-67
‘Fatal Visions’: The Image as Actor in Early Modern Tragedy....Pages 68-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Political Theology in George Buchanan’s Baptistes....Pages 89-104
The Ethics of Pardoning in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure....Pages 105-117
Punishing Perjury in Love’s Labour’s Lost....Pages 118-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
‘They repented at the preachyng of Ionas: and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here’: A Looking Glass for London and England, Hosea and the Destruction of Jerusalem....Pages 139-155
Marital Infidelity and Christian Self-Sacrifice in Thomas Heywood’s How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad....Pages 156-175
Reading the White Devil in Thomas Adams and John Webster....Pages 176-194
Situating Political and Biblical Authority in Massinger and Field’s The Fatal Dowry....Pages 195-222
Afterword....Pages 223-229
Back Matter....Pages 230-266

✦ Subjects

Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; History of Early Modern Europe; Philosophy of Religion; Modern History; British and Irish Literature

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