The Materiality Of Religion In Early Modern English Drama

Author : Elizabeth Williamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317024439

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The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama by Elizabeth Williamson Pdf

The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama is the first book to present a detailed examination of early modern theatrical properties informed by the complexity of post-Reformation religious practice. Although English Protestant reformers set out to destroy all vestiges of Catholic idolatry, public theater companies frequently used stage properties to draw attention to the remnants of traditional religion as well as the persistent materiality of post-Reformation worship. The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama explores the relationship between popular culture and theatrical performance by considering the social history and dramatic function of these properties, addressing their role as objects of devotion, idolatry, and remembrance on the professional stage. Rather than being aligned with identifiably Catholic or Protestant values, the author reveals how religious stage properties functioned as fulcrums around which more subtle debates about the status of Christian worship played out. Given the relative lack of existing documentation on stage properties, The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama employs a wide range of source materials-including inventories published in the Records of Early English Drama (REED) volumes-to account for the material presence of these objects on the public stage. By combining historical research on popular religion with detailed readings of the scripts themselves, the book fills a gap in our knowledge about the physical qualities of the stage properties used in early modern productions. Tracing the theater's appropriation of highly charged religious properties, The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama provides a new framework for understanding the canonization of early modern plays, especially those of Shakespeare.

Author : S. P. Cerasano
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838643976

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England by S. P. Cerasano Pdf

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published annually

Author : Musa Gurnis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812295184

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Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling by Musa Gurnis Pdf

Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling explores the mutually generative relationship between post-Reformation religious life and London's commercial theaters. It explores the dynamic exchange between the imaginatively transformative capacities of shared theatrical experience, with the particular ideological baggage that individual playgoers bring into the theater. While early modern English drama was shaped by the polyvocal, confessional scene in which it was embedded, Musa Gurnis contends that theater does not simply reflect culture but shapes it. According to Gurnis, shared theatrical experience allowed mixed-faith audiences to vicariously occupy alternative emotional and cognitive perspectives across the confessional spectrum. In looking at individual plays, such as Thomas Middleton's A Game of Chess and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Gurnis shows how theatrical process can restructure playgoers' experiences of confessional material and interrupt dominant habits of religious thought. She refutes any assumption that audiences consisted of conforming Church of England Protestants by tracking the complex and changing religious lives of seventy known playgoers. Arguing against work that seeks to draw fixed lines of religious affiliation around individual playwrights or companies, she highlights the common practice of cross-confessional collaboration among playhouse colleagues. Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling demonstrates how post-Reformation representational practices actively reshaped the ways ideologically diverse Londoners accessed the mixture of religious life across the spectrum of beliefs.

Author : Katherine Steele Brokaw,Jason Zysk
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810140509

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Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare by Katherine Steele Brokaw,Jason Zysk Pdf

The term “secular” inspires thinking about disenchantment, periodization, modernity, and subjectivity. The essays in Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare argue that Shakespeare’s plays present “secularization” not only as a historical narrative of progress but also as a hermeneutic process that unleashes complex and often problematic transactions between sacred and secular. These transactions shape ideas about everything from pastoral government and performative language to wonder and the spatial imagination. Thinking about Shakespeare and secularization also involves thinking about how to interpret history and temporality in the contexts of Shakespeare’s medieval past, the religious reformations of the sixteenth century, and the critical dispositions that define Shakespeare studies today. These essays reject a necessary opposition between “sacred” and “secular” and instead analyze how such categories intersect. In fresh analyses of plays ranging from Hamlet and The Tempest to All’s Well that Ends Well and All Is True, secularization emerges as an interpretive act that explores the cultural protocols of representation within both Shakespeare’s plays and the critical domains in which they are studied and taught. The volume’s diverse disciplinary perspectives and theoretical approaches shift our focus from literal religion and doctrinal issues to such aspects of early modern culture as theatrical performance, geography, race, architecture, music, and the visual arts.

Author : Dr Elizabeth Williamson,Dr Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781409478638

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Religion and Drama in Early Modern England by Dr Elizabeth Williamson,Dr Jane Hwang Degenhardt Pdf

Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion and performance were inextricably linked in early modern England. Its readings extend beyond the interpretation of straightforward religious allusions and suggest new avenues for theorizing the dynamic relationship between religious representations and dramatic ones. By addressing the particular ways in which commercial drama adapted the sensory aspects of religious experience to its own symbolic systems, the volume enacts a methodological shift towards a more nuanced semiotics of theatrical performance. Covering plays by a wide range of dramatists, including Shakespeare, individual essays explore the material conditions of performance, the intricate resonances between dramatic performance and religious ceremonies, and the multiple valences of religious references in early modern plays. Additionally, Religion and Drama in Early Modern England reveals the theater's broad interpretation of post-Reformation Christian practice, as well as its engagement with the religions of Islam, Judaism and paganism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133693460

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Religion & Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gerald Weales
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:49015000551292

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Religion in Modern English Drama by Gerald Weales Pdf

Author : David Cressy,Lori Anne Ferrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134286768

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Religion and Society in Early Modern England by David Cressy,Lori Anne Ferrell Pdf

Religion and Society in Early Modern England is a thorough sourcebook covering interplay between religion, politics, society, and popular culture in the Tudor and Stuart periods. It covers the crucial topics of the Reformation through narratives, reports, literary works, orthodox and unorthodox religious writing, institutional church documents, and parliamentary proceedings. Helpful introductions put each of the sources in context and make this an accessible student text.

Author : Kristin M. S. Bezio,Scott K. Oldenburg
Publisher : Routledge Research in Early Modern History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0367502321

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Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace by Kristin M. S. Bezio,Scott K. Oldenburg Pdf

Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace explores the complex intersection between the geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens of religious belief and practice. By examining the religiously motivated markets and marketplace practices in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, Scotland, and Wales, the volume presents religious praxis as a driving force in the formulation and everyday workings of the social and economic markets. Within the volume, the authors address first spiritual markets and marketplaces, discussing the intersection of Puritan and Protestant Ethics with the market economy. The second part addresses material marketplaces, including the marriage market, commercial trade markets, and the post-Reformation Catholic black market. In the third part of the volume, the chapters focus specifically on publication markets and books, including manuscripts and commonplace books, as well as printed volumes and pamphlets. Finally, the volume concludes with an examination of the literary marketplace, with analyses of plays and poems which engage with and depict both spiritual and material markets. Taken as a whole, this collection posits that the "modern" conception of a division between religion and the socioeconomic marketplace was a largely fictional construct, and the chapters demonstrate the depth to which both were integrated in early modern life.

Author : Gerald Clifford Weales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:36606240

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Religion in Modern English Drama by Gerald Clifford Weales Pdf

Author : Susan Zimmerman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748680764

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Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre by Susan Zimmerman Pdf

Within a theoretical framework that makes use of history, psychoanalysis and anthropology, The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the 'dead' in early modern English culture.Susan Zimmerman argues that concepts of the corpse as a semi-animate, generative and indeterminate entity were deeply rooted in medieval religious culture. Such concepts ran counter to early modern discourses that sought to harden categorical distinctions between body/spirit, animate/inanimate - in particular, the attacks of Reformists on the materiality of 'dead' idols, and the rationale of the new anatomy for publicly dissecting 'dead' bodies. Zimmerman contends that within this context, theatrical representations of the corpse or corpse/revenant - as seen here in the tragedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries - uniquely showcased the theatre's own ideological and performative agency. Features*Original in its conjunction of critical theory (Bataille, Kristeva, Lacan, Benjamin) with an historical account of the shifting status of the corpse in late medieval and early modern England.*The first study to demonstrate connections between the meanings attached to the material body in early modern Protestantism, the practice of anatomical dissection, and the English public theatre.*Strong market appeal to scholars and graduate students with interests in the theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, early modern religion and science, and literary theory. *Relevant to advanced undergraduates taking widely taught courses in Shakespeare and in Renaissance drama.

Author : Kristen Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521025443

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Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton by Kristen Poole Pdf

Study of religious non-conformity in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1922 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211722678

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : European literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112126030987

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Renaissance Et Réforme by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057121345

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf