Reformations of the Body [electronic resource] : Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Early Modern Theater /
Waldron, J.author.
This project takes the human body and the bodily senses as joints that articulate new kinds of connections between church and theatre and overturns a longstanding notion about theatrical phenomenology in this period.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: reformations of the body -- Dead idols and lively images: A genealogy of Protestant iconoclasm -- Sacrament and theater: Shakespeare's lawful magic -- Theatrical authorship and providential bodies: the case of Doctor Faustus -- Revenge, sacrifice, and post-reformation theater: the Spanish tragedy -- Shakespeare and revenge: the anthropology of sacrifice in Titus Andronicus and Othello -- Virgin martyrs and sacrificial sovereigns: Thomas Dekker's politic bodies -- Epilogue: iconoclastic bodies and literary technique: Oldcastle to Milton.
This project takes the human body and the bodily senses as joints that articulate new kinds of connections between church and theatre and overturns a longstanding notion about theatrical phenomenology in this period.
Theater-History.
Civilization-History.
Literature, Modern.
Theater.
Literature-History and criticism.
British literature.
Theatre History.
Cultural History.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Literary History.
British and Irish Literature.