Early modern drama and the Bible : contexts and readings, 1570-1625

Folger bibliographic ID: 264435
Folger call number: PR649.B5 E27 2012
Folger holdings ID: 350045

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction : situating the Bible in early modern drama / Adrian Streete -- Enter the book : reading the Bible on the early modern stage / Michael Davies -- Measuring up to Nebuchadnezzar : biblical presences in Shakespeare's tragicomedies / Helen Wilcox -- 'Fatal visions' : the image as actor in early modern tragedy / Patricia Canning -- Political theology in George Buchanan's Baptistes / Dermot Cavanagh -- The ethics of pardoning in Shakespeare's Measure for measure / Paul Cefalu -- Punishing perjury in Love's labour's lost / Judith Hudson -- '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 / Beatrice Groves -- Marital infidelity and Christian self-sacrifice in Thomas Heywood's How a man may choose a good wife from a bad / Emer McManus -- Reading the white devil in Thomas Adams and John Webster / Emma Rhatigan -- Situating political and biblical authority in Massinger and Field's The fatal dowry / Adrian Streete -- Afterword / Hannibal Hamlin

Extended title: Early modern drama and the Bible : contexts and readings, 1570-1625 / edited by Adrian Streete

English drama Bible LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century PHILOSOPHY / Religious

associated with: Streete, Adrian