History, religion, and violence
Subtitle: cultural contexts for medieval and renaissance English drama
By: Clifford Davidson.
Series: Variorum collected studies series ;; 744; Collected studies ;; 744.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.; Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Religion and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Literature and history -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Literature and history -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Violence in literature.; Renaissance -- England.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I: Religion and Historical Crosscurrents in Renaissance Drama; title: Marlowe, the Papacy, and Doctor Faustus 3; title: The History of King Lear and the Problem of Belief 24; title: The Anxiety of Power and Shakespeare's Macbeth 42; title: Antony and Cleopatra: Circe, Venus, and the Whore of Babylon 64; title: Part II: Sacred Violence and the Mysteries; title: Cain in the Mysteries: The Iconography of Violence 97; title: The Sacrifice of Isaac in Medieval English Drama 124; title: Nudity, the Body, and Early English Drama 149; title: Sacred Blood and the Late Medieval Stage 180; title: Part III: Cultural Contexts for Early Drama; title: Carnival, Lent, and Early English Drama 207; title: The Medieval Stage and the Antitheatrical Prejudice 226; title: Idol and Image in Late Medieval Art and Drama 240; title: Saints in Play: English Theater and Saints' Lives 251; title: Signs of Doomsday in Drama and Art 267.