The Bible And Modern British Drama

Author : Mary F. Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000691511

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The Bible and Modern British Drama by Mary F. Brewer Pdf

The Bible and Modern British Drama: 1930 to the Present Day is the first full-length study to explore how playwrights in the modern period have adapted popular biblical stories, such as Abraham and Isaac, Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, and the life and death of Jesus, for the stage. The book offers detailed and accessible interpretations of the work of well-known dramatists such as Christopher Fry, Howard Brenton, and Steven Berkoff, alongside the work of writers whose plays have been neglected in recent criticism, such as James Bridie and Laurence Housman. The drama is analysed within the context of changes in religious belief and practice over the course of the modern period in Britain, comparing plays that approach the Bible from a traditional religious perspective with those that offer alternative viewpoints on the text, including the voices of gay, feminist, black, Jewish, and Muslim dramatists. In doing so, the author offers a broad and in-depth exploration that is grounded in current scholarship, ranging from the past to present, across boundaries of race and gender. Ideal for students, researchers, and general readers interested in understanding how the Bible has served as an important source text for British playwrights in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, The Bible and Modern British Drama shows how Bible-based drama has been influential in creating and disseminating ideas of what constitutes a "good" life, both on an individual and social level.

Author : A. Streete
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230358669

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Early Modern Drama and the Bible by A. Streete Pdf

Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible.

Author : Christopher Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521016754

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Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century by Christopher Innes Pdf

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Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317100669

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Marian Moments in Early Modern British Drama by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

Concerning itself with the complex interplay between iconoclasm against images of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England and stage representations that evoke various 'Marian moments' from the medieval, Catholic past, this collection answers the call for further investigation of the complex relationship between the fraught religio-political culture of the early modern period and the theater that it spawned. Joining historians in rejecting the received belief that Catholicism could be turned on and off like a water spigot in response to sixteenth-century religious reform, the early modern British theater scholars in this collection turn their attention to the vestiges of Catholic tradition and culture that leak out in stage imagery, plot devices, and characterization in ways that are not always clearly engaged in the business of Protestant panegyric or polemic. Among the questions they address are: What is the cultural function of dramatic Marian moments? Are Marian moments nostalgic for, or critical of, the 'Old Faith'? How do Marian moments negotiate the cultural trauma of iconoclasm and/or the Reformation in early modern England? Did these stage pictures of Mary provide subversive touchstones for the Old Faith of particular import to crypto-Catholic or recusant members of the audience?

Author : Ignacio Ramos Gay
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443868693

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Adaptations, Versions and Perversions in Modern British Drama by Ignacio Ramos Gay Pdf

This book aims to explore which plays were deemed ‘suitable’ to be reworked for foreign or local stages; what transformations – linguistic, semiotic, theatrical – were undertaken so as to accommodate international audiences; how national literary traditions are forged, altered, and diluted by means of transnational adapting techniques; and, finally, to what extent the categorical boundaries between original plays and adaptations may be blurred on the account of such adjusting textual strategies. It brings together ten articles that scrutinise the linguistic, social, political and theatrical complexities inherent in the intercultural transference of plays. The approaches presented by the different contributors investigate modern British theatre as an instance of diachronic and synchronic transnational adaptations based upon a myriad of influences originating in, and projected upon, other national dramatic traditions. These traditions, rooted in relatively distant geographies and epochs, are traced so as to illustrate the split between the state-imposed identity and personal, subjective identity caused by cultural negotiations of the self in an age of globalism. International frontiers are thus pointed at in order to claim the need to be transcended in the process of cultural re-appropriation associated with theatre performance for international audiences.

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081563076X

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A Reader's Guide to Modern British Drama by Sanford Sternlicht Pdf

This book reveals the influences of modern history and psychology on British drama; the all-important influence of Irish dramatists like Wilde, Shaw, O’Casey, and Beckett; the significance of the Independent Theatre of J. T. Grein and the early Royal Court Theatre; the gay community’s contribution to the British theater; the powerful new feminist drama; and the British festival theater. Auseful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain’s great dramatic tradition and vital contemporary theater, for students pursuing drama studies, and for libraries in need of an accessible reference work.

Author : Gerald Weales
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:49015000551292

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Religion in Modern English Drama by Gerald Weales Pdf

Author : Rebecca Lemon,Emma Mason,Jonathan Roberts,Christopher Rowland
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 959 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118241158

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The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature by Rebecca Lemon,Emma Mason,Jonathan Roberts,Christopher Rowland Pdf

This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages. An ambitious overview of the Bible's impact on English literature – as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history – from the medieval period through to the twentieth-century Includes introductory sections to each period giving background information about the Bible as a source text in English literature, and placing writers in their historical context Draws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature Includes many 'secular' or 'anti-clerical' writers alongside their 'Christian' contemporaries, revealing how the Bible's text shifts and changes in the writing of each author who reads and studies it

Author : Victoria Brownlee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192540577

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Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, 1558-1625 by Victoria Brownlee Pdf

The Bible had a profound impact on early modern culture, and bible-reading shaped the period's drama, poetry, and life-writings, as well as sermons and biblical commentaries. This volume provides an account of the how the Bible was read and applied in early modern England. It maps the connection between these readings and various forms of writing and argues that literary writings bear the hallmarks of the period's dominant exegetical practices, and do interpretative work. Tracing the impact of biblical reading across a range of genres and writers, the discussion demonstrates that literary reimaginings of, and allusions to, the Bible were common, varied, and ideologically evocative. The book explores how a series of popularly interpreted biblical narratives were recapitulated in the work of a diverse selection of writers, some of whom remain relatively unknown. In early modern England, the figures of Solomon, Job, and Christ's mother, Mary, and the books of Song of Songs and Revelation, are enmeshed in different ways with contemporary concerns, and their usage illustrates how the Bible's narratives could be turned to a fascinating array of debates. In showing the multifarious contexts in which biblical narratives were deployed, this book argues that Protestant interpretative practices contribute to, and problematize, literary constructions of a range of theological, political, and social debates.

Author : Prickett Stephen Prickett
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781474471794

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Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts by Prickett Stephen Prickett Pdf

An authoritative assessment of the changing relationship between the Bible and the artsIn this unique Companion, 35 scholars, from world-famous to just beginning, explore the role of the Bible in art and of artistic motifs in the Bible. The specially commissioned chapters demonstrate that just as the arts have portrayed biblical stories in a variety of ways and media over the centuries, so what we call 'the' Bible is not actually a single entity but has been composed of fiercely contested translations of texts in many languages, whose selection has depended historically on a variety of cultural pressures, theological, social, and, not least, aesthetic. Key Features:* Divided into 3 sections, Inspiration and Theory, Art and Architecture, and Literature* Generously illustrated * Covers aesthetic interpretations of specific biblical books; of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles as a whole; the transmission of biblical texts; various bindings and illustrations of Bibles - in response to pressures as diverse as Islamic craftsmanship and the English Reformation* Includes pieces on biblical influences on poetry, painting, church architecture, decoration, and stained glass; on poetry, hymns, novels, plays, and fantasy literature* Spans the earliest days of the Christian era to the present

Author : Eva von Contzen,Chanita Goodblatt
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781526131614

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Enacting the Bible in medieval and early modern drama by Eva von Contzen,Chanita Goodblatt Pdf

The thirteen chapters in this collection open up new horizons for the study of biblical drama by putting special emphasis on multitemporality, the intersections of biblical narrative and performance, and the strategies employed by playwrights to rework and adapt the biblical source material in Catholic, Protestant and Jewish culture. Aspects under scrutiny include dramatic traditions, confessional and religious rites, dogmas and debates, conceptualisations of performance, and audience response. The contributors stress the co-presence of biblical and contemporary concerns in the periods under discussion, conceiving of biblical drama as a central participant in the dynamic struggle to both interpret and translate the Bible.

Author : Elizabeth Hale Winkler
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874133580

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The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama by Elizabeth Hale Winkler Pdf

This comprehensive study formulates an original theory that dramatic song must be perceived as a separate genre situated between poetry, music, and theater. It focuses on John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy, Edward Bond, Peter Barnes, John Osborne, Peter Nichols, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and John McGrath.

Author : Eleanor Chadwick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000994698

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Historically Responsive Storytelling by Eleanor Chadwick Pdf

This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier forms of storytelling and an ancient worldview. This volume looks at our diverse and amalgamative theatrical inheritance and discusses various practitioners and companies whose work reflects and recapitulates ideas, approaches, and structures original to theatre’s ritual roots. Drawing together a range of topics and examples from the early Middle Ages to the modern day, Chadwick focuses in on a theatrical language which includes an emphasis on the psychosomatic, the non-linear, the symbolic, the liminal, the collective, and the sacred. This interdisciplinary work draws on approaches from the fields of anthropology, philosophy, historical and cognitive phenomenology, and neuroscience, making the case for the significance of historically responsive modes in theatre practice and more widely in our society and culture. Eleanor

Author : Chanita Goodblatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317111061

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Jewish and Christian Voices in English Reformation Biblical Drama by Chanita Goodblatt Pdf

English Biblical drama of the sixteenth century resounds with a variety of Jewish and Christian voices. Whether embodied as characters or manifested as exegetical and performative strategies, these voices participate in the central Reformation project of biblical translation. Such translations and dramatic texts are certainly enriched by studying them within the wider context of medieval and early modern biblical scholarship, which is implemented in biblical translations, commentaries and sermons. This approach is one significant contribution of the present project, as it studies the reciprocal illumination of Bible and Drama. Chanita Goodblatt explores the way in which the interpretive cruxes in the biblical text generate the dramatic text and performance, as well as how the drama’s enactment underlines the ethical and theological issues as the heart of the biblical text. By looking at English Reformation biblical drama through a double-edged prism of exegetical and performative perspectives, Goodblatt adds a new dimension to the existing discussion of the historical resonance of these plays. Jewish and Christian Voices in English Reformation Biblical Drama integrates Jewish and Christian exegetical traditions with the study of Reformation biblical drama. In doing so, this book recovers the interpretive and performative powers of both biblical and dramatic texts.

Author : Roger Cornish,Violet Ketels
Publisher : London ; New York : Methuen
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015012204262

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Landmarks of Modern British Drama: The plays of the sixties by Roger Cornish,Violet Ketels Pdf

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