Author: Rainer Pineas
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004616721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The purpose of this study is to examine the evolution of religious polemical drama from the Middle Ages to the Elizabethan and Stuart periods.
Tudor and Early Stuart Anti-Catholic Drama
Author: Rainer Pineas
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004616721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The purpose of this study is to examine the evolution of religious polemical drama from the Middle Ages to the Elizabethan and Stuart periods.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004616721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The purpose of this study is to examine the evolution of religious polemical drama from the Middle Ages to the Elizabethan and Stuart periods.
Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England
Author: D. Coleman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230589642
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230589642
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
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.
Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays
Author: David N. Beauregard
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 0874130026
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Explores and reexamines Shakespeare's theology from the standpoint of revisionist history of the English Reformation.
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 0874130026
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Explores and reexamines Shakespeare's theology from the standpoint of revisionist history of the English Reformation.
Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama
Author: Lynn Forest-Hill
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135176490X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000: Insults, abuse, oaths, scatological and bawdy language - these form the subject of Lynn Forest-Hill's study on "bad" language in the late Middle Ages. She demonstrates how, in mediaeval mystery plays and morality plays, dramatists used outrageous language with great sophistication and subtlety to create characterizations and define characters' moral status, to reflect on social conditions, to condemn social evils, and to comment upon sensitive cultural, political and religious topics of the 16th century. The author begins by defining what constitutes sinful or transgressive language in the later mediaeval period, and establishes its moral significance. She then illustrates how the moral significance of language is used in drama to define the spiritual and social status of characters, and introduces the concept of sinful language as a sign of spiritual change. In later chapters the book explores the use of "bad" language in mystery and morality plays, focusing specifically on Skelton's "Magnyfycence", Heywood's "The Play of the Weather", and Bale's "King Johan". The study shows the extent to which the moral significance of language in drama shifted during the 16th century under pressure from cultural and political change, paving the way for less morally rigorous and more socially sensitive definitions of "bad" language.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135176490X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000: Insults, abuse, oaths, scatological and bawdy language - these form the subject of Lynn Forest-Hill's study on "bad" language in the late Middle Ages. She demonstrates how, in mediaeval mystery plays and morality plays, dramatists used outrageous language with great sophistication and subtlety to create characterizations and define characters' moral status, to reflect on social conditions, to condemn social evils, and to comment upon sensitive cultural, political and religious topics of the 16th century. The author begins by defining what constitutes sinful or transgressive language in the later mediaeval period, and establishes its moral significance. She then illustrates how the moral significance of language is used in drama to define the spiritual and social status of characters, and introduces the concept of sinful language as a sign of spiritual change. In later chapters the book explores the use of "bad" language in mystery and morality plays, focusing specifically on Skelton's "Magnyfycence", Heywood's "The Play of the Weather", and Bale's "King Johan". The study shows the extent to which the moral significance of language in drama shifted during the 16th century under pressure from cultural and political change, paving the way for less morally rigorous and more socially sensitive definitions of "bad" language.
Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain
Author: Ian Lancashire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521262958
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
In 1800 entries this valuable reference work covers texts and records of dramatic activity for about 400 sites in Britain from Roman times to 1558. Grouped in sections - texts listed chronologically; Records of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Other, classified by county, site, and date; and doubtful texts and records - the entries summarize the contents of each record and give bibliographic information. Professor Lancashire presents a comprehensive survey of almost every type of literary and historical record, document, and work: civic, church, guild, monastic, and royal court minutes and financial accounts; national records - Chancery, Parliament, Privy Council, Exchequer; royal proclamations; wills; local court rolls; jest-books, poems, prose treatises, sermons; archaeological remains, artifacts, illustrations. He brings together works in several normally unrelated fields: Roman theatre in Britain; medieval drama as such, including the Corpus Christi play and the moral play; court revels of the Tudors, and of their predecessors in England and Scotland; and finally Latin and Greek drama as played in Oxford and Cambridge colleges. An introduction outlines the history of early drama in Britain. Appendixes include indexes of about 335 towns or patrons with travelling players, complete with rough itineraries; about 180 playwrights; and about 320 playing places and buildings. There are illustrations, four maps, and a large general subject and name index.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521262958
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
In 1800 entries this valuable reference work covers texts and records of dramatic activity for about 400 sites in Britain from Roman times to 1558. Grouped in sections - texts listed chronologically; Records of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Other, classified by county, site, and date; and doubtful texts and records - the entries summarize the contents of each record and give bibliographic information. Professor Lancashire presents a comprehensive survey of almost every type of literary and historical record, document, and work: civic, church, guild, monastic, and royal court minutes and financial accounts; national records - Chancery, Parliament, Privy Council, Exchequer; royal proclamations; wills; local court rolls; jest-books, poems, prose treatises, sermons; archaeological remains, artifacts, illustrations. He brings together works in several normally unrelated fields: Roman theatre in Britain; medieval drama as such, including the Corpus Christi play and the moral play; court revels of the Tudors, and of their predecessors in England and Scotland; and finally Latin and Greek drama as played in Oxford and Cambridge colleges. An introduction outlines the history of early drama in Britain. Appendixes include indexes of about 335 towns or patrons with travelling players, complete with rough itineraries; about 180 playwrights; and about 320 playing places and buildings. There are illustrations, four maps, and a large general subject and name index.
Tudor Histories of the English Reformations, 1530–83
Author: Thomas Betteridge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351877399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This book examines the Tudor histories of the English Reformation written in the period 1530-83. All the reforming mid-Tudor regimes used historical discourses to support the religious changes they introduced. Indeed the English Reformation as a historical event was written, and rewritten, by Henrician, Edwardian, Marian and Elizabethan historians to provide legitimation for the religious policies of the government of the day. Starting with John Bale’s King Johan, this book examines these histories of the English Reformations. It addresses the issues behind Bale’s editions of the Examinations of Anne Askewe, discusses in detail the almost wholly neglected history writing of Mary Tudor’s reign and concludes with a discussion of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments. In the process of working chronologically through the Reformation historiography of the period 1530-1583 this book explores the ideological conflicts that mid-Tudor historians of the English Reformations addressed and the differences, but also the similarities often cutting across doctrinal differences, that existed between their texts.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351877399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This book examines the Tudor histories of the English Reformation written in the period 1530-83. All the reforming mid-Tudor regimes used historical discourses to support the religious changes they introduced. Indeed the English Reformation as a historical event was written, and rewritten, by Henrician, Edwardian, Marian and Elizabethan historians to provide legitimation for the religious policies of the government of the day. Starting with John Bale’s King Johan, this book examines these histories of the English Reformations. It addresses the issues behind Bale’s editions of the Examinations of Anne Askewe, discusses in detail the almost wholly neglected history writing of Mary Tudor’s reign and concludes with a discussion of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments. In the process of working chronologically through the Reformation historiography of the period 1530-1583 this book explores the ideological conflicts that mid-Tudor historians of the English Reformations addressed and the differences, but also the similarities often cutting across doctrinal differences, that existed between their texts.
Essays in Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555-1575
Author: Jessica Dell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317038673
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555-1575 considers the implications of recent archival research which has profoundly changed our view of the continuation of performances of Chester's civic biblical play cycle into the reign of Elizabeth I. Scholars now view the decline and ultimate abandonment of civic religious drama as the result of a complex network of local pressures, heavily dependent upon individual civic and ecclesiastical authorities, rather than a result of a nation-wide policy of suppression, as had previously been assumed.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317038673
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555-1575 considers the implications of recent archival research which has profoundly changed our view of the continuation of performances of Chester's civic biblical play cycle into the reign of Elizabeth I. Scholars now view the decline and ultimate abandonment of civic religious drama as the result of a complex network of local pressures, heavily dependent upon individual civic and ecclesiastical authorities, rather than a result of a nation-wide policy of suppression, as had previously been assumed.
Theatre and Religion
Author: Richard Dutton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719063633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719063633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher Description
Religious Dissimulation and Early Modern Drama
Author: Kilian Schindler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009226312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Kilian Schindler reveals how religious persecution in early modern England was a shaping force for drama and conceptions of theatricality.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009226312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Kilian Schindler reveals how religious persecution in early modern England was a shaping force for drama and conceptions of theatricality.