Early modern drama and the Bible
Subtitle: contexts and readings, 1570-1625
By: [edited by] Adrian Streete
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230301092
Subjects: Bible; In literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama; HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century; English drama; History and criticism; PHILOSOPHY / Religious
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : situating the Bible in early modern drama / Adrian Streete; title: Enter the book : reading the Bible on the early modern stage / Michael Davies; title: Measuring up to Nebuchadnezzar : biblical presences in Shakespeare's tragicomedies / Helen Wilcox; title: 'Fatal visions' : the image as actor in early modern tragedy / Patricia Canning; title: Political theology in George Buchanan's Baptistes / Dermot Cavanagh; title: The ethics of pardoning in Shakespeare's Measure for measure / Paul Cefalu; title: Punishing perjury in Love's labour's lost / Judith Hudson; title: '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; title: Marital infidelity and Christian self-sacrifice in Thomas Heywood's How a man may choose a good wife from a bad / Emer McManus; title: Reading the white devil in Thomas Adams and John Webster / Emma Rhatigan; title: Situating political and biblical authority in Massinger and Field's The fatal dowry / Adrian Streete; title: Afterword / Hannibal Hamlin.